Biden’s offshore wind initiative is set to join the Titanic
By Marc Morano
February 2, 2024
11:42 am
BY CRAIG RUCKER,
President Biden’s plan to install 30 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity by 2030 appears headed into the same dark Atlantic waters as the Titanic before it.
Last fall, Orstead scuttled plans to build its Ocean Wind 1 and Ocean Wind 2 installations off the New Jersey coast. The projects could have generated a combined 1.1 gigawatts of electricity. That would be approximately enough to power 500,000 average homes, at least when the wind is blowing in unpredictable spurts. In truth, it might have come to 3,500 hours of intermittent electricity during an 8,760-hour year.
Earlier this year, Equinor and BP deep-sixed their Empire Wind 2 project off coastal New York. This one supposedly had the potential to generate 1.26 gigawatts, enough for 575,000 homes — that is, as long as the wind blows just hard enough for maximum electricity generation, but not so hard that the turbines have to be shut off to avoid blade breakage.
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