Lillgrund Wind Farm is located about 10 km off the coast of southern Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

, just south of the Öresund Bridge

Oresund Bridge

The Øresund or Öresund Bridge is a combined twin-track railway and dual carriageway bridge-tunnel across the Øresund strait.The bridge connects Sweden and Denmark, and it is the longest road and rail bridge in Europe. The Øresund Bridge also connects two major Metropolitan Areas: those of the...

, where average wind speeds are 8 m/s. With 48 wind turbines (Siemens

Siemens AG

Siemens AG is a German multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Munich, Germany. It is the largest Europe-based electronics and electrical engineering company....

 SWT-2.3-93) and a capacity of 110 megawatts (MW), Lillgrund is Sweden's largest offshore wind farm

Wind farm

A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electric power. A large wind farm may consist of several hundred individual wind turbines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles, but the land between the turbines may be used for agricultural or other...

, which will meet the domestic electricity demand of more than 60,000 homes.

The farm's turbines have a rotor diameter of 93 metres and a total height of 115 metres.

See also

• List of offshore wind farms in Sweden
• List of offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea
• List of large wind farms
• List of wind farms in Sweden
• List of offshore wind farms

External links

• Images from Lillgrund Wind Farm
• LORC Knowledge - Datasheet for Lillgrund Offshore Wind Farm