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Sunday, June 2nd, 2024

Is US Offshore Wind Dead in the Water—Or Just Poised for the Next Big Gust?

Author:     Pam Radtke
Source:     Inside Climate News
Publication Date:     May 31, 2024
 Link: Is US Offshore Wind Dead in the Water—Or Just Poised for the Next Big Gust?
Stephan:  

You would think that wind energy would be the obvious next step for the carbon energy industry, as we exit the carbon power era. You might think that but the carbon corporations don’t or can’t see it as this important article on this technology reports. Note also how criminal Trump did everything he could to sabotage the development of wind energy, to serve the carbon industry’s interest, and how disinformation to damage the development of wind power was used by MAGAt world. Note finally, as the article describes how the China is leading the world in wind power development.

In 2020, installation was completed on the first wind turbines installed in U.S. federal waters 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach, Va. The Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind pilot project is designed to demonstrate a grid-connected, 12-megawatt offshore wind test facility.
Credit: Stephen Boutwell / Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

In the early 2000s, a long-time Louisiana engineer and entrepreneur thought it would be natural for the oil and gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico to expand into offshore wind. The industry could use the same workforce, the same shipyards and possibly even the same platforms to generate renewable power.

With designs, data and offshore leases from Texas, Herman Schellstede and his team planned to build a 62-turbine wind farm off Galveston’s coast— one of the first such proposals in the United States and the first in the Gulf of Mexico.

The team approached banks and even Koch Industries seeking financing for the $300 million wind farm, he said. But […]

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