The Hywind project will mark the first investment by Statoil’s newly created New Energy Solutions (NES) division, led by Irene Rummelhoff, and will entail installation of a 30-megawatt wind turbine farm in a water depth of between 95 and 120 metres off Petershead in Aberdeenshire county.
Production from the four square-kilometre wind park, which will generate sufficient power for about 20,000 households, is due to start in late 2017.
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