Epic Timing For An EV: Ford Launches Lightning F-150 Pickup, Offshore Wind Picks Up, Pipeline…
All good things are worth waiting for, and the timing is eerily perfect for the Lightning, Ford’s new electric version of the F-150 pickup.
All good things are worth waiting for, and the timing is eerily perfect for the Lightning, Ford’s new electric version of the F-150 pickup.
GE sticks a fork in the US coal industry with new 13-megawatt version of its Haliade-X offshore wind turbine.
Two recent studies claim the offshore wind farm near Block Island has lead to higher tourism and better recreational fishing. Commercial fishermen are less than thrilled, however.
Danish offshore wind energy giant Ørsted has entered into an agreement to acquire the Rhode Island-based offshore wind developer behind the 30 megawatt (MW) Block Island offshore wind farm, Deepwater Wind, in a move set to be worth $510 million and which will result in the creation of a US offshore wind platform.
The United States’ first large offshore wind farm, the 800 megawatt (MW) Vineyard Wind project, has scored pricing well below analyst expectations, starting at $74 per MW-hour (MWh) for the first phase of the project and an even more impressive $65/MWh for the project’s second phase.
A trio of announcements from the northeast United States has set the country’s nascent offshore wind industry ablaze, with Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Jersey combining to make announcements that will support the development of at least 5 gigawatts (GW) worth of offshore wind energy over the next decade.
Offshore wind farms in the Northeast corner of the United States are under consideration by New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Maryland, even though the Cape Wind project is now officially dead.
Experts claim the potential for wind power off the coasts of America is as much as one terawatt — 13 times the total from land-based wind farms in the US at present. California and Delaware are exploring the construction of wind farms off the coast of both states.
The United States’ offshore wind industry is only on its first legs, and it’s staying small for the time being, with Dominion Energy announcing this week it will partner with DONG Energy to build a 12 MW offshore project off the coast of Virginia Beach.
The US Energy Information Agency has high hopes for the US offshore wind industry, even though it has barely gotten its first “steel in the water.”