Spanish fabrication firm Navacel has won the contract for the construction of the Statoil Hywind Scotland wind farm's towers. Each floating tower will be built in four sections, and each will weigh more than 600 tonnes assembled. The towers will support Siemens 6 MW turbines. Delivery is planned for December.

The installation gained final approval from the Scottish government earlier this week, and it is set to become the world's most powerful floating offshore wind park. Statoil project director Leif Delp said that the project's location off Peterhead, Scotland, would benefit from a "huge wind resource and an experienced supply chain from oil and gas." A downturn in the U.K. North Sea offshore oil and gas industry has had a negative effect on the Scottish shoreside supply chain, and Hywind will leverage that existing capacity.

http://maritime-executive.com/article/floating-wind-farm-to-leverage-oil--gas-expertise

Gotta kind of wonder what kind of a land shape you'd find at a place called Peterhead...

Edit: And what mascot they selected for the Peterhead High School.

Edited May 27, 201610 yr by impulse