A public presentation will be held in Peterhead today as plans to install floating turbines in north-east waters progresses.
Statoil’s Hywind project, which will build five turbines as part of a wind farm off the coast of the Buchan port, is scheduled to be complete by 2017.
It will cost the Norweigan firm £180million.
And to showcase the world’s largest floating turbine project, a public presentation will be held in the town’s Palace Hotel this evening.
Halfdan Brustad, vice president for wind projects at Statoil, said it was important to offer the public an opportunity to have their say on the future of the scheme.
He added that the company would have a bigger presence in the town heading forward.
“I hope as many people as possible will show up because we want to give as many answers as possible,” he said.
“We are also very pleased that we will have the first floating windfarm that we can showcase in Scotland.”
The public exhibition will begin at 6pm with an oral presentation, before representatives from Statoil take questions from the floor.
Questions about employment opportunities the windfarm will provide will also be discussed.
The firm made the decision to construct the turbines off Peterhead after being granted approval by the Scottish Government in November last year.
Offshore specialist company MacGregor, part of the Finland headquartered Cargotec group, will be responsible for the delivery of the substructure mooring connection system for the pilot project’s five floating wind turbines.
Delivery of equipment is planned from the second through the fourth quarter of 2016 and installation of the wind turbines is scheduled for 2017.
German firm Siemens will supply the 600ft turbines.
Siemens helped Statoil prove the concept at the first full-scale floating wind project, Hywind Demo, off the coast of Norway six years ago.
The structures will be moored 15 miles off the coast of Peterhead in the North Sea, in water about 360ft deep.