Installation of the world’s largest installed floating offshore wind farm, the 48MW Kincardine Offshore Wind project (pictured), has been completed.
The project, approximately 15km off the southeast coast of Aberdeenshire, at water depths ranging between 60m to 80m, is expected to generate up to 218GWh of clean electricity a year.
This will be enough to power approximately 55,000 Scottish households.
The Kincardine floating offshore wind farm is being developed by Kincardine Offshore Wind, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pilot Offshore Renewables (POR).
Cobra Wind, a subsidiary of ACS Group, is responsible for the engineering, design, supply, construction, and commissioning of the Kincardine floating wind farm.
As well as being constructed to ABS Class, each of the five floating turbines is flagged with the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI).
ABS worked closely with the RMI to determine applicable IMO requirements and performed reviews as the RMI’s Recognised Organisation.
ABS senior vice president for global offshore Matthew Tremblay said: “This exciting project demonstrates the potential of floating turbines and we are confident they will have an increasingly prominent role to play in the development of sustainable energy all over the world.”