Anchors aweigh for the first commercial offshore wind farm in the US | FT Energy Source

30 years after Europe’s first offshore wind farm, the US is building its first industrial-scale offshore wind farm, 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. It will be home to the world’s most powerful wind turbines, and is expected to help the US transition to a new clean energy economy and reach the Biden administration’s goal of 30GW of wind power by 2030.


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[samsonsoturian]

There's a major factual inaccuracy as the US is definitely not behind on green energy.

China, for instance, boasts about how many green energy plants they build but leave out how they're still building brand new coal and gas plants. The reason for their high production rate being Chinese power plants last as long as you expect. Also the stats are skewed as some green energy projects were "tofu dregs, " and were only broken equipment put up for show.

As for Europe things vary wildly from state to state. Russia is having trouble affording new stuff and the Soviet stuff works fine, for instance. Other places have really jumped into green stuff though.

As for the most of the world, it's a struggle to keep the lights on and water sanitary, let alone go green.

[MM-sfrl]

30 Gigawatt, should be twice as much. There was 17GW wind installed in 2021 and 16GW of solar. Come on. This is not a good start for 2030.

[youxkio]

Oh, holy crap! So many ignorant comments here.

[herceg]

Europe is so a head of us when it comes to wind power. Germany, Denmark and UK especially.

[aarononeal]

Ft needs to talk about ecosia they are a search engine that plants trees.

[henryc]

The problem isn’t with building Heather, the problem from the rich and powerful will be… not in my backyard!!

[RonaldIvanQuintero]

Excited for this project. Also smart marketing partnership

[samsonsoturian]

We are definitely overproducing electricity at this point since the new farms aren't replacing any plant in particular. At some point we'll just be making more than we can use, and falling prices will simply drive the newer less profitable and more indebted green companies into the ground.