Xinhua News Agency, Oslo, October 18, Statoil announced on the 18th that the world's first floating offshore wind farm, located on the northeast coast of Scotland, United Kingdom, was officially commissioned and can provide electricity to around 20,000 homes. The company said in a statement that the Haywind wind farm in Scotland is located 25 kilometers off Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, with a total installed capacity of 30 MW and is jointly owned by Statoil and Mas in Abu Dhabi, United States. Emirates. It is jointly operated by the Dahl company and costs around 190 million pounds (around 250 million US dollars).
At the end of June, all the turbines were towed out to sea 24 kilometers off the coast of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and began operating as giant fishing rafts. Including blades, each wind turbine measures 175 meters high and weighs 12,000 tonnes.
HeIt is understood that the Haywind wind farm in Scotland covers an area of 4 square kilometers in the sea, with a water depth of between 95 meters and 129 meters, and includes a total of 5 floating wind farms. turbines. Each wind turbine weighs 12,000 tonnes and is 253 meters high, including 78 meters underwater and 175 meters above water. Each blade measures 75 meters long, the equivalent of the wingspan of an Airbus airliner.