Energy · 2017

Floating offshore wind

Turbines on floating spars reach deep waters beyond fixed foundations.

Equinor's 30 MW Hywind Scotland, five turbines on ballasted spar buoys, opened in 2017 using oil-platform know-how. Floating foundations open the deep coasts of Japan, California and Norway to wind.

See it in the living tree Wikipedia

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 2

Offshore wind farm 1991
Offshore oil drilling 1947

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Installed wind capacity Latest: 1.29k GW (2025) Source: Our World in Data

Wind electricity generation Latest: 2.71k TWh (2025) Source: Our World in Data