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World’s First Floating Wind Farm Begins Operating in Scotland
- Partners installed five turbines off coast of Aberdeen
- Floating wind forecast to rapidly decrease in price: Statoil
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The world’s first floating offshore wind farm started delivering electricity to the grid in the north of Scotland.
The Hywind project, built by Norwegian oil company Statoil ASA and Masdar Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co., has five turbines floating 25 kilometers (16 miles) off the coast of Peterhead, near Aberdeen. The project has a capacity of 30 megawatts and cost about 200 million pounds ($263 million) to construct.