Offshore Wind Power
The needs of European Offshore Wind developers will constrain availability severely for wind turbine installation vessels that could serve the U.S. market.
A bill backed by a New Jersey Senate committee would allow offshore wind developers to site transmission on public land regardless of local governments.
Penn State, Johns Hopkins and Cal Poly are the first, second and third place winners, respectively, in the 2021 Collegiate Wind Competition.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper called for 2.8 GW of offshore wind by 2030 and 8 GW by 2040, citing clean energy goals, economic development opportunities.
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The U.S. could pass a clean energy standard through budget reconciliation by changing the way the standard works, Leah Stokes of UC-Santa Barbara says.
Calif. needs to increase the pace of transmission buildout to reach its 100% clean energy goals by 2045 & retain natural gas for reliability, advocates say.
Unity was the theme at the American Clean Power Association’s first conference since replacing the American Wind Energy Association.
The Biden administration is taking a whole-of-government approach to meeting its goal to deploy 30 GW of OSW by 2030, a top federal energy official said.
Offshore wind developers are stressing that carefully coordinated port development, which could require massive funding, is key to achieving state goals.
California’s goal of 100% renewables by 2045 makes a suggested offshore wind development target of at least 10 GW insufficient, a major developer said.
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