Malta considering the world’s largest floating wind farm

Malta Hexicon Wind farm
Malta purposed wind farm. (Image by hexicon.eu)

The European island nation of Malta is aiming to increase the amount of energy created by renewable sources. Like the others members of the European Union they are evaluating different options to meet the goal set by a mandate recently to get 10 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020.  To achieve this goal, Malta is considering a proposal by the Swedish company Hexicon, to build a large floating wind farm.

The plant is intended to produce 54MW, which amounts to 9% of the energy currently generated by the two existing power stations. The solution Hexicon proposes in tales a massive offshore hexagon-shaped, 460-metre-wide, floating platform, hosting 36 wind turbines that is anchored to the seafloor by cables.

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