The silly giant scale of US offshore wind development

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The silly giant scale of US offshore wind development

By David Wojick |January 7th, 2023|Energy|11 Comments
The world’s biggest offshore wind array is Hornsea 2, which is 1,386 MW with a turbine size of 8.4 MW. Operational in 2022 it is the state of the OSW art. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offshore_wind_farms

But Virginia’s phase 1 array is a whopping 2,600 MW, with huge 15 MW turbines. Clearly it is a giant, far bigger than anything that has ever been built. The cost is estimated as $10 billion to build.

Moreover there are a dozen or more comparable giant arrays proposed to be built at the same time, lining the Atlantic coast. Last I heard the combined proposals topped a gigantic 40,000 MW.

https://www.cfact.org/2023/01/07/the-silly-giant-scale-of-us-offshore-wind-development/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-silly-giant-scale-of-us-offshore-wind-development&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-silly-giant-scale-of-us-offshore-wind-development