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Gudmund Olsen (Statoil): Hywind

Gudmund Olsen (Statoil)
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Published: 10.06.2017
Gudmund Olsen visited Bergen Energy Lab on the 2nd of May 2017. Gudmund works for Statoil with development of new energy strategies, and he gave a talk about Hywind: Statoil鈥檚 successfully developed floating offshore wind turbine technology.
The Hywind demo has been tested in Norwegian waters since 2009. Based on the demo, larger turbines are currently being assembled at Stord in Norway to be towed to Scotland, where they will constitute the world鈥檚 first floating wind farm.
(After Gudmund鈥檚 presentation, a guided tour at the wave tank at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences was arranged.)聽聽聽聽
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