StatoilHydro is investing about NKr340m in the project, with Enova providing NKr 59m. Enova is a state-owned company which promotes environment-friendly changes to energy production and use in Norway.
The turbine has been manufactured by the Siemens Wind Power company in Denmark, while France’s Technip built the floater and Nexans produced and laid the power cable to land.
Following assembly in the Åmøy Fjord near Stavanger, the Hywind pilot was towed in June to a location 10 kilometres south-west of Karmøy island for a two-year test period.
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