The world’s first floating offshore wind farm, Hywind Scotland, has been in operation since 2017. On its fifth birthday, its operators shared how it’s going and what they’ve learned.

This expectation is further supported by GEV’s active role in the industry, as demonstrated in 2024 when it completed scheduled maintenance for a major European floating wind farm.

The “unique” wind farm – installed on floating concrete structures with a joint mooring system about86 miles off the coast of Norway – is the first of its kind to power oil and gas ...

Orono, Maine (CNN) — The first, full-sized floating offshore wind turbine in the United States will tower 850 feet above the waves in the Gulf of Maine – roughly as tall as New York City’s ...

This is where floating wind farms come into play. The world's first floating wind farm, Hywind, opened in 2017, almost 25 miles off the coast of Aberdeen in Scotland.

The wind farm sits about 87 miles off the coast of Norway and plans to fully come online between 2022 and 2023. So far, only seven of its eleven turbines are slated to come on in 2022.

On December 7, 2022, the federal government auctioned off five lease areas about 20 miles off the California coast to companies with plans to develop floating wind farms.

Floating turbines are the only way some countries and U.S. states can capture offshore wind energy on a large scale. In the U.S. alone, 2.8 terawatts of wind energy potential blows over ocean ...

The wind farm is about 87 miles off the coast of Norway. Equinor plans to get seven of Hywind Tampen’s turbines spinning by the end of this year. The company aims to install four more turbines ...

The WindFloat Atlantic project – the world's first semi-submersible floating offshore wind farm – has exceeded expectations over the last four years of operation, generating a total of 320 GWh ...

A 540-megawatt (MW) hybrid floating solar–floating wind farm is going to be developed off Italy’s southern coast, in the Ionian Sea. Dutch-Norwegian offshore solar company SolarDuck, Italian ...

The first, full-sized floating offshore wind turbine in the United States will tower 850 feet above the waves in the Gulf of Maine – roughly as tall as New York City’s famed 30 Rockefeller ...