The complicated future of offshore wind power in the US
by Josh Anusewicz, Yale University
Over the past decade, wind power production in the U.S. has tripled, becoming the largest source of renewable energy in the country, the American Wind Energy Association has reported. There are more than 56,800 wind turbines in 41 states and territories, generating more than 6 percent of the nation's electricity, supporting more than 105,000 jobs and garnering billions of dollars in private and public investment.
While the vast majority of that production is happening on land—a rare exception being a small commercial wind farm off the Rhode Island coast—the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has laid out an ambitious plan to expand the nation's wind sector into offshore waters.
https://phys.org/news/2019-04-complicated-future-offshore-power.html
