The floating farm has already survived a winter storm, a hurricane, and wave heights of around 27 feet while powering around 20,000 households in the United Kingdom. Continue reading below Our ...

The wind farm weathered hurricane Ophelia in October, with gusts of up to 80 mph, followed by a December storm that produced winds as high as 100 mph and 27-foot-high waves.

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.

The first offshore turbines—making up the Vindeby Offshore Wind Farm—dates back to 1991 and was erected just off the coast of the Danish island of Lolland. While the Vindeby Offshore Wind Farm ...

The Hywind wind farm is the world’s first floating wind farm, located about 15 miles off the coast of Scotland. Unlike other offshore wind farms, Hywind isn’t anchored to the seafloor.

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 ...

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.

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 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.

The photographer Andrew Testa and I recently visited a floating wind farm off a fishing port in northeast Scotland. Floating turbines are a new frontier in the fast-growing offshore wind industry.