Hywind – Floating Offshore Wind Farm
The StatoilHydro demonstration project Hywind is based on wind turbines with a height of around 80 metres above sea-level and a blade diameter of around 90 metres.
Some advantages would be: reduced visual impact, mobility (not stationary), increased power production, ability to work in deeper waters
Hywind in brief
- Turbine capacity: 2.3 MW
- Weight of turbine: 138 tonnes
- Turbine height: 65 m
- Rotor diameter: 82.4 m
- Floatation element’s draught below sea surface: 100 m
- Total weight: 5300 tonnes
- Diameter at sea surface: 6 m
- Diameter of floatation element: 8.3 m
- Sea depth range: 120 ?EUR” 700 metres
- No. of anchor moorings: 3
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