Decommissioning Start

Equinor’s decommissioning programme for the Hywind Scotland Pilot Park states that, after a 20‑year design life and opening in October 2017, decommissioning activities are scheduled to begin in Q2 2038. The base case is to remove all offshore components in reverse order of installation, including the single export cable (a mainly static ~25–27.5 km HVAC 33 kV link with a short dynamic section up to turbine HS5), with detailed cable recovery using offshore construction vessels, winches and water‑jetting to expose and retrieve buried sections, subject to final environmental assessment.