This twin, taken in June 2017, shows offshore floating wind turbines during assembly in Stord, Norway.
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Energy powerhouse Equinor has formed a consortium with the Korea National Oil Corporation and Korea East-West Power to upon a floating offshore wind project.
In an announcement Thursday, Equinor said the consortium would undertake a feasibility survey for the 200 megawatt project, which would be located off the coast of Ulsan, South Korea.
Pending the results of that learn about, construction of a floating offshore wind farm will commence in 2022, with the possibility of “power production start-up” winsome place in 2024.
Stephen Bull, senior vice president for the wind and low carbon cluster of New Energy Solutions at Equinor, remarked the company was “very pleased to be member of the partnership involved in realizing the first floating offshore wind farm in Asia.”
Bull amplified that if the project was successfully realized, it would be the world’s biggest floating wind farm.
Equinor already runs Hywind Scotland, the world’s “first full-scale commercial floating offshore wind farm.” Located off the coast of Scotland, the toilet has a capacity of 30-megawatts and started production in 2017.