An oil and gas company is launching an innovative floating wind park where the wind blows hardest—and that you can’t see from shore.
Statoil’s new Hywind wind park, off the east Scottish coast, may not, in fact, be the “world’s first floating wind farm,” as the Norwegian oil and gas company claims. That honor surely belongs to Japan and its iconic floating field 12 miles from Fukushima Dai-Ichi (yes, that Fukushima). But, maybe we’re being unkind to point that out. That Statoil is building a floating wind park at all is pretty remarkable. Indeed, you wonder why it had to stretch the truth about its good news.
