Abstract
This report gives a brief state of the art overview report on offshore windmill Farms inEurope with special focus on Norwegian waters and the Gulf of Bothnia. Two examples of offshore wind farms are described and the first is Hywind Tampen, commissioned in 2022, is an 88 MW floating wind park intended to provide electricity for the Snorre and Gullfaks offshore field operations in the Norwegian North Sea. It is the world’s first floating wind farm to power offshore oil and gas platforms. Hywind Tampen was commissioned in 2022 and is the largest floating wind farm in operation today, and an essential step in industrializing solutions and reducing costs for future offshore wind power projects.