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.
Newly anointed Siemens Gamesa has completed the installation of five 6 megawatt turbines on floating foundations in Stord, Norway, to be then towed to Scottish waters to be installed at what will then be the world’s largest floating offshore wind project, the 30 MW Hywind Scotland.
The Energy Department is determined to revive a 500-megawatt offshore wind energy project in Maine that appeared all but dead last year.
The experimental offshore wind energy project to be located outside of Fukushima that was started all the way back in early 2012 has been coming along, according to recent reports. Sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry — with help from a consortium featuring Marubeni (project integrator), the … [continued]
March 2011—when the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami devastated four reactors and endangered two others at Fukushima 1—forced a radical rethinking of Japan’s energy picture that continues today with a Japan feed-in tariff program. In the latest round, the utilities are pushing back against the feed-in tariffs and the fruitful development … [continued]
Floating wind turbines are ready to bust open the deep water wind market, with the mashup of French wind and marine energy powerhouses Alstom and DCNS.
We’ve been covering floating wind turbines for years. The idea is one that forever seems to be on the horizon (no pun intended), which may make it seem like a dead end, but I’m actually really bullish about floating wind turbines. We have to recognize that floating wind turbines are … [continued]
An offshore wind turbine demonstration project at Coos Bay off the Oregon coast has finally put the US on the global floating wind turbine map.The US has been lagging badly while other countries spring ahead with offshore wind farms, but it when it comes to the niche sector of floating wind turbines we’re right up there with the front-runners.
One of the persistent myths of wind energy is that vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) are better than the iconic three-bladed horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWTs). A wrinkle on this myth has surfaced over the past couple of years, that the balance of engineering compromises favours VAWTs for offshore applications. … [continued]
The European Union’s total electricity usage could be met — actually, it could be exceeded more than four times over — by floating offshore wind farms in the deep waters of the North Sea, according to a new report from the European Wind Energy Association. The report also urges the … [continued]
