Head 10 miles out from the coast of Aberdeen in Scotland and a cluster of five giant wind turbines spin at a height of 190 metres above the North Sea, quietly generating enough clean electricity to power about 35,000 Scottish homes.
This offshore windfarm is dwarfed by the sprawl of turbines rising from the sea along Britain’s east coast. But the Kincardine project represents a different future for clean energy: when its turbines began spinning it was the largest wind farm in the world that could float.
