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Hywind Scotland is the world's first commercial wind farm using floating wind turbines, situated off Peterhead, Scotland.[1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 25 relations: Åmøy, Capacity factor, CleanTechnica, Equinor, Floating wind turbine, Gullfaks oil field, Hurricane Ophelia (2017), IEEE Spectrum, Levelized cost of electricity, Masdar, North Sea, Offshore wind power, Peterhead, Project commissioning, Renewables Obligation (United Kingdom), Saipem 7000, Scotland, Siemens Gamesa, Snorre oil field, Stavanger, Stord, Suction caisson, Teknisk Ukeblad, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 2017–18 European windstorm season.

  2. 2017 establishments in Scotland
  3. 2017 in technology
  4. Energy infrastructure completed in 2017
  5. Equinor
  6. Floating wind turbines
  7. Wind farms in Scotland

Åmøy

Åmøy is an island in Stavanger Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.

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Capacity factor

The net capacity factor is the unitless ratio of actual electrical energy output over a given period of time to the theoretical maximum electrical energy output over that period.

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CleanTechnica

CleanTechnica is a US-based website dedicated to aggregating news in clean technology, sustainable energy, and electric vehicles, with a focus on Tesla.

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Equinor

Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil and StatoilHydro) is a Norwegian state-owned multinational energy company headquartered in Stavanger, Norway.

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Floating wind turbine

A floating wind turbine is an offshore wind turbine mounted on a floating structure that allows the turbine to generate electricity in water depths where fixed-foundation turbines are not feasible. Hywind Scotland and floating wind turbine are floating wind turbines.

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Gullfaks oil field

Gullfaks is an oil and gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea operated by Equinor.

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Hurricane Ophelia (2017)

Hurricane Ophelia (known as Storm Ophelia in Ireland and the United Kingdom while extratropical) was regarded as the worst storm to affect Ireland in 50 years, and was also the easternmost Atlantic major hurricane on record. The tenth and final consecutive hurricane and the sixth major hurricane of the very active 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, Ophelia had non-tropical origins from a decaying cold front on 6 October.

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IEEE Spectrum

IEEE Spectrum is a magazine edited by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

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Levelized cost of electricity

The levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is a measure of the average net present cost of electricity generation for a generator over its lifetime.

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Masdar

Masdar (Arabic:مصدر‎), also known as the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, is an Emirati state-owned renewable energy company.

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North Sea

The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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Offshore wind power

Offshore wind power or offshore wind energy is the generation of electricity through wind farms in bodies of water, usually at sea.

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Peterhead

Peterhead (Ceann Phàdraig, Peterheid) is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Project commissioning

Project commissioning is the process of ensuring that all systems and components of a building or industrial plant are designed, installed, tested, operated, and maintained according to the owner's or final client's operational requirements.

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Renewables Obligation (United Kingdom)

The Renewables Obligation (RO) was designed to encourage generation of electricity from eligible renewable sources in the United Kingdom.

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Saipem 7000

The Saipem 7000 is the world's third largest semi-submersible crane vessel, after the and the.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Siemens Gamesa

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, S.A. was formed in 2017 in a merger of Siemens' Wind Power division with Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica, S.A.; it is a Spanish-German wind engineering company based in Zamudio, Biscay, Spain.

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Snorre oil field

Snorre is an oil and gas field in the Tampen area in the southern part of the Norwegian Sea.

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Stavanger

Stavanger (US usually) is a city and municipality in Norway.

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Stord

Stord is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway.

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Suction caisson

Suction caissons (also referred to as suction anchors, suction piles or suction buckets) are a form of fixed platform anchor in the form of an open bottomed tube embedded in the sediment and sealed at the top while in use so that lifting forces generate a pressure differential that holds the caisson down.

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Teknisk Ukeblad

Teknisk Ukeblad (TU, Technical Weekly Magazine) is a Norwegian engineering magazine.

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The Global Warming Policy Foundation

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom whose aims are to challenge what it calls "extremely damaging and harmful policies" envisaged by governments to mitigate anthropogenic global warming.

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2017–18 European windstorm season

The 2017–2018 European windstorm season was the third instance of seasonal European windstorm naming.

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See also

2017 establishments in Scotland

2017 in technology

Energy infrastructure completed in 2017

Equinor

Floating wind turbines

Wind farms in Scotland

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hywind_Scotland

Also known as Buchan Deep, Hywind, Hywind 2, Hywind II, Hywind Scotland Pilot Park, Hywind Scotland Pilot Park Offshore Wind Farm, Hywind at Peterhead.