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tl;dr: Just 88 MW, used solely to extract oil and gas. Floating wind turbines are considered tricky to maintain, but there are lots more places to put them tha
by pencilguin 4y ago
tl;dr: Just 88 MW, used solely to extract oil and gas.
Floating wind turbines are considered tricky to maintain, but there are lots more places to put them than sea-floor mounted units. So this farm is insignificant as a power source, but might help demonstrate viability of floating wind, and might help a company now reliant on serving fossil extraction diversify.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoTop 15 items on Norways emmisions list are all oil fields and refineries so makes sense for them to start looking into this: https://climatetrace.org/comparison/63727ab243c30 https://climatetrace.org/comparison/63727ab243c30 edit: better link here: https://climatetrace.org/inventory?sector=all&time=2021&country=NOR&gas=co2e100 https://climatetrace.org/inventory?sector=all&time=2021&coun... They're already well ahead of the game when it comes to fugitive emissions, and if that gets priced in globally, or even within the EU, they'll have guaranteed sales until others catch up with equally strict standards.
- lost_tourist 4y agoIt's still industrial scale, and you have to walk before you run on something like that. If it works reliably at that size, there is no reason it can't horizontally scale to 10x that size and compete with others.