The Biden administration has a goal of getting from today’s 42 megawatts of offshore wind power to nearly 30,000 by the end of the decade, but there are still obstacles ahead.
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To increase renewable energy use, the Biden administration wants the US to go from seven offshore wind turbines today to enough to power 10 million homes within a decade.
As few as 100 companies produced 60% of revenues in eight ocean industries in 2018.
Will Boris Johnson’s ‘offshore wind revolution’ really unlock significant economic value?
A recent report found widespread support among North Sea oil and gas workers for a career in renewable energy.
China has a monopoly on rare earth metals, so where will the materials for the UK’s wind revolution come from?
More than 80% of the world’s offshore wind blows further from land than conventional wind farms can reach.
Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore oil and gas industry is the province’s largest contributor to the economy and will be critically important to its future.
The Great Acceleration inaugurated the Anthropocene in the 1950s. Now, a similar race for resources and space is happening in the ocean.
Want a rule of thumb for how voters should view megaprojects in manifestos? Read on.
The choice is now between a green grid or a whole lot more gas-fired power.
Generating less electricity with fossil fuels could help save lives.
Several states, including Massachusetts and Rhode Island, have developed ambitious renewable energy targets that hinge in large part on getting their power from turbines stationed in the water.
Experts expect the wind business to remain brisk in the US and abroad, on land and offshore.
Offshore wind is an expensive business to get into.
Why go to all that bother when you can just half-fill the kettle?
By 2030, the Blue Economy will be worth $3 trillion. And the UK is well placed to capture a slice of this lucrative market, if it meets the challenges involved with innovation and ambition.
Plans to build the world’s largest offshore windfarm show projects are getting bigger and bigger, and moving ever further from land.
The UK’s first new nuclear power station since the 1990s is coming at the expense of renewable energy and leaving us unnervingly in hock to the Chinese.
With wind braced for more cutbacks, government backing of nuclear and fracking will end in tears.
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Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering and Faculty Director of The Energy Transition Institute, UMass Amherst
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