Hywind Scotland
Hywind Scotland is the world's first commercial wind farm using floating wind turbines, situated 29 kilometres off Peterhead, Scotland. The farm has five 6 MW Siemens direct-drive turbines on Hywind floating monopiles, with a total capacity of 30 MW.Photo: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Power station
- Description: World’s first commercial wind farm using floating wind turbines, in the North Sea off the Scottish coast
- Also known as: “Hywind Scotland Wind Farm”
Hywind Scotland
- Categories: floating wind farm, Hywind, and industry
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.48253° or 57° 28′ 57″ northLongitude
-1.35377° or 1° 21′ 14″ westOperator
EquinorOpen location code
9C9WFJMW+2FOpenStreetMap ID
way 565033674Wikidata ID
Q6989526
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Satellite Map
Discover Hywind Scotland from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From German to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Hywind Scotland” goes by many names.
- German: “Hywind Scotland”
- Hungarian: “Hywind”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hywind Scotland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hywind”
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Highlights include German submarine U-1206 and Easternmost point of Scotland.
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