Hywind Tampen – Floating Offshore Wind
Equinor’s Hywind Tampen is an 88 MW floating wind power project designed to provide electricity for the Snorre and Gullfaks offshore field operations in the Norwegian North Sea. It is the world’s first floating wind farm to power offshore oil and gas platforms.
As the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm, this project is an essential step in industrializing solutions and reducing costs for future offshore wind power projects.
Hywind Tampen acts as a test bed for further development of floating wind, exploring the use of new and larger turbines, installations methods, simplified moorings, concrete substructures and integration between gas and wind power generation systems.
The project scope comprised engineering, procurement, and construction of the 11 floating concrete hulls that carry the wind turbines, and execution of marine operation services which includes the full project management, engineering, assembly site management, mooring system installation, units tow-to-field and installation of the floating wind turbine units at the Tampen area.
The project reduces Norwegian CO2 emissions by more than 200,000 tonnes per year, which is equivalent to the emissions from 100,000 cars. In addition, analyses confirm that the hulls made of concrete have a favorable CO2 footprint compared to several other solutions.