Norway opened the world’s first floating wind power station
Organizational networks, according to physicists, reported that the Norwegian wind energy giant – the Norwegian State Oil Hydro (StatoilHydro) 9 Yue 8 announced the world’s first offshore floating wind power station in Norway’s North Sea coast was officially opened. According to Hydro, the Norwegian State oil company, the wind turbine, called “Hywind”, high 65 meters and weighs 5300 tons, located in south-west coast of Norway near the Kamo Yi Island (Karmoey) 10 km away. Hy wind generator set in a floating platform, raft, and the seabed by three cables is fixed inside the rock into the water and used as ballast. Norway’s state oil company plans to Hydro Hywind generators in the next two years to test, and then seeking to work with international partners, to build more floating wind turbines. The company, Japan, South Korea, the United States in California and the East Coast and Spain as a potential market, to bring this new technology exported to the areas. Hywind wind turbine can be used for water depth 120-700 m of the sea, and, compared to the current fixed-wind turbine can also be placed farther offshore. Norway’s national oil company Hydro Man Linke, said in an interview, floating wind turbine has a “lot of great advantage.” She said: “From the shore, it is nearly invisible presence that can be placed where others do not. We can in some countries the use of such wind turbines, such as the shore, deep water, in particular country, or there is no construction of the ground wind the engine space country. ” Hywind wind turbine generating capacity of 2.3 megawatts, the project total investment of 400 million kroner (66 million U.S. dollars), far higher than the stationary wind turbines. Costello Man Linke said: “Our goal is to floating wind turbine wind turbine fixed costs down to a level which is currently installed in the underwater depths of 60 meters.” French Dekenipu the company (Technip), and Germany’s Siemens are involved in the Hywind wind turbine project. Norway’s state oil company said Norsk Hydro, Hywind wind turbine power generation is expected to begin within a few weeks.
