Equinor commissions floating wind farm Hywind Tampen
- Location
- North Sea, approx. 140 km northwest of Bergen (Tampen area), Norway · 🇳🇴 Norway
- Project
- Hywind Tampen Offshore Wind Farm
- Investment
- approx. NOK 3.3 billion in project/investment costs (including NOK 2,329.8 million in Enova funding and NOK 566 million from the NOx Fund)
- Status
- Operational
Hywind Tampen is the world's first floating offshore wind farm built to power oil and gas platforms, located about 140 km northwest of Bergen in the Norwegian North Sea (water depth 260-300 m). It comprises 11 floating turbines (Siemens Gamesa SG 8.0-167 DD, 8.6 MW each) for a total capacity of 88 MW, operated by Equinor together with partners including Vår Energi, Petoro, INPEX Idemitsu and Wintershall Dea. It supplies electricity to the Snorre and Gullfaks platforms, came online in stages from November 2022 and reached full operation by May 2023 (official opening August 2023).
Source: en.wikipedia.org ↗ · Archived copy ↗
Evidence: one source · archived copy saved · How well sourced is Eurotrack?
More from: 🇳🇴 Norway