Hywind Scotland
- Country: UK
- Setting: Offshore
- Capacity: 30 MW
- Year: 2017
Overview
The worlds first floating offshore wind farm, five 6 MW turbines on spar buoys moored in deep water off Peterhead, operated by Equinor, which proved floating concepts and was followed by the larger Hywind Tampen in Norway.
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