{"id":19045,"date":"2015-11-03T13:47:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T21:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/scotland-to-build-worlds-largest-floating-wind-farm"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:20:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:20:04","slug":"scotland-to-build-worlds-largest-floating-wind-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/scotland-to-build-worlds-largest-floating-wind-farm","title":{"rendered":"Scotland to build world\u2019s largest floating wind farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scotland-to-build-worlds-largest-floating-wind-farm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Scottish government has announced that it\u2019s approved the construction of the UK\u2019s first \u2013 and world\u2019s largest \u2013 floating offshore wind development.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s largest floating wind farm is set to be installed 25 kilometres off the coast of Peterhead at the easternmost point of mainland Scotland. The development, called Hywind, will be developed by Norwegian energy company Statoil and is expected to generate enough electricity to power nearly 20,000 homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHywind is a hugely exciting project, in terms of electricity generation and technology innovation, and it\u2019s a real testament to our energy sector expertise and skilled workforce that Statoil chose Scotland for the world\u2019s largest floating wind farm,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotland.gov.uk\/News\/World-s-largest-floating-wind-farm-1ed6.aspx\">said John Swinney<\/a>, deputy first minister.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scotland-to-build-world-s-largest-floating-wind-farm\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish government has announced that it\u2019s approved the construction of the UK\u2019s first \u2013 and world\u2019s largest \u2013 floating offshore wind development. The world\u2019s largest floating wind farm is set to be installed 25 kilometres off the coast of Peterhead at the easternmost point of mainland Scotland. The development, called Hywind, will be developed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69246,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19045\/revisions\/69246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}