For the symbolic opening of the facility, the Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon coupled two cables together on the Gullfaks C oil rig. What will your task be?
Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon has officially launched the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm, according to the operator. For the symbolic opening of the facility called Hywind Tampen, the heir to the Norwegian throne coupled two cables together on Wednesday on the Gullfaks C oil rig. The plant will supply electricity to five oil and gas platforms in the North Sea in order to reduce their CO2 emissions. According to the oil and gas company Equinor, this will probably save 200,000 tons of CO2 annually.
“Today we are making history,” said Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre during the opening, according to the NTB news agency. The cost of the project is high, but someone has to lead the way with the technology. “By connecting these lines here, we are connecting to the future,” Haakon said.
Floating wind turbines are not firmly anchored to the seabed at sea. The turbines are instead mounted on floating concrete structures with a common anchoring system. Hywind Tampen is the first of its kind in Norway. It consists of 11 floating turbines. The wind farm cost 7.4 billion crowns (640 million euros) and produced its first electricity in November 2022. With a planned total capacity of 88 megawatts, it is expected to cover approximately one-third of the power requirements of the Snorre A and B and Gullfaks A, B and C oil and gas platforms.
Source: Stern
