A huge floating wind farm will be built in South Korea

Equinor, Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC) and the Korean power company Korea East-West Power (EWP) have formed a consortium to develop the floating offshore wind project Donghae 1 off Ulsan in South Korea.

The consortium is currently launching the development of a 200MW floating wind farm to be located close to the KNOC-operated Donghae natural gas field off the coast of Ulsan in South Korea.

Pending results of the feasibility study, the consortium will start constructing a floating offshore wind farm in 2022, with possible power production start-up in 2024.

“A floating wind farm of this size will help to increase the competitiveness of offshore wind energy in the future”, said Stephen Bull, senior vice president for wind power and low carbon cluster of New Energy Solutions in Equinor, adding that this will be the first offshore wind farm in Asia.

Earlier it was reported that in Scotland wind farms for half a year produced twice as much electricity as the country needs.  Scottish wind generated enough electricity to power the equivalent of 4.47 million homes for six months. That is almost double the number of homes in Scotland. 

Source: elektrovesti.net

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