Conquering the Arctic

An employee at the Havøygavlen wind farm on his snowmobile. Picture credit: Zbigniew Wantuch

An employee at the Havøygavlen wind farm on his snowmobile. Picture credit: Zbigniew Wantuch

By Darius Snieckus

 Friday, January 04 2013

Updated: Friday, January 11 2013

The hard lessons learned at the world's most northerly wind farm will help open up the world's cold regions to development, writes Darius Snieckus from HavØysund

In January on the northern Norwegian island of Havøya, day is like night. Here, deep inside the Arctic Circle, the last of the sunlight is seen in late November and the first rays won't reappear until mid-February.

The weather is similar to the rest of the country's long, stunning coast — changeable and wet — with the distinction that the mercury can drop as low as -25ºC. And that is before the wind chill.

Yet a decade ago, 16 wind turbines were erected on the bluff above the island's only town, Havøysund, a…

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