The construction of the world's largest floating wind farm has been approved off the coast of Peterhead in Scotland, Scottish Government announced on November 2, 2015.
The UK's first floating wind development, Hywind, will be built about 25 km (15.5 miles) off the shores of Peterhead, near Buchan Deep, and attached to the local seabed by a three-point mooring spread and anchoring system. The five floating 6 MW Hywind turbines are expected to generate capacity of 135 GWh (gigawatt hours) of electricity annually, which is estimated enough to power up to 19 900 houses.
The turbines will be connected by an inter-array of cables and an export cable will transport electricity from the pilot park to shore at Peterhead. The project will be carried out by Statoil, the leading Norwegian energy company in oil and gas production.
