The Kincardine Offshore Windfarm, 15 km off the coast of Aberdeen, Scotland, is the world’s largest grid-connected floating wind project.
It established Scotland’s leading position in both the development and deployment of offshore windfarms.
Kincardine – the world’s largest grid-connected floating wind project
The Kincardine array’s first turbine started generating in 2018 and the project was completed by late summer 2022. The 50MW project consists of 5 Vestas 9.5 MW turbines – the most powerful ever floated – and 1 Vestas 2MW turbine. The Kincardine project uses steel semi-submersible floating foundations designed by Principle Power.
Kincardine is the world’s largest grid-connected floating project, generating enough electricity to power 55,000 homes in Scotland, saving 94,000 tonnes of CO2 compared to fossil-fuelled electricity generation. Flotation Energy’s founders were central to the development of Kincardine, a project that proved the technological and commercial readiness of floating offshore wind and is recognised around the world.
Kincardine put Scotland on the map as a major player in offshore wind. With its renowned technical capability, harnessed from decades of offshore engineering and project management expertise, Scotland is a country with the capability and exportable skills to successfully deliver large offshore infrastructure ventures. Flotation Energy sits in the centre of this pool of talent, with a global network of supply chain and partners.
