Challenge 9:
Skills, knowledge, technology and participation for all

Ensure comprehensive capacity development and equitable access to data, information, knowledge and technology across all aspects of ocean science and for all stakeholders.

The need to provide perpetual clean, renewable energy to populations in the most extreme areas of the Arctic presents unprecedented engineering challenges. Around 6,000 households in the municipality of Måsøy and the surrounding area in Norway are supplied by Havøygavlen, the world’s northernmost wind farm. Havøygavlen represented a major wind engineering challenge due to ice and unpredictable wind gusts that can cause severe damage to its 16 turbines. Havøygavlen’s turbines, operating models and software systems are the result of a specific redesign for the Arctic’s extreme environment, which has enabled renewable energy to be brought to other parts of the region in recent years.