The United States’ offshore wind industry is tiny, with just seven wind turbines operating off Rhode Island and Virginia. The few attempts to build large-scale wind farms like Europe’s have run into long delays, but that may be about to change.
On May 11, 2021, the U.S. government issued the final federal approval for the Vineyard Wind project, a utility-scale wind farm that has been over a decade in the planning. The wind farm’s developers plan to install 62 giant turbines in the Atlantic Ocean about 15 miles off Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, with enough capacity to power 400,000 homes with clean energy.
The project is the first approved since the Biden administration announced a goal in March to develop 30,000 megawatts of offshore wind capacity this decade and promised to accelerate the federal review process. To put that goal in perspective, the U.S. has just 42 megawatts today. Vineyard Wind expects to add 800 megawatts in 2023.
Break through? Money grab more like it. Now and in the future.
Not efficient for the USA/eastern seaboard simply because of timing. Not saying it won’t work – but C’mon man.
Other pressing concerns than things we would “like” or “think” should be done.
Put one in the Kenyans front yard and hope it sucks their ass into the blade.
Well, they have proven themselves a total failure on land based farms unless you count the ability of them to kill birds, so let’s put them in salt water and see how they do.
It’s a money grab and nothing else.