The world’s first floating offshore wind farm was opened this month by Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon and has started to deliver electricity to the grid. The scheme has a price tag of nearly £200 million.

Known as Hywind Scotland, the five-turbine 30MW wind farm, operated by Statoil in partnership with Masdar, is 25 kilometres out to sea from Peterhead on the Aberdeenshire coast.

Norway-based Statoil and its partner Masdar are also installing Batwind, a 1MWh lithium battery storage facility, which will help mitigate intermittency problems and optimise output.