Should California Go Full Steam Ahead
on Offshore Wind Farms? Latest Evidence
Says No
Posted By: 4250Luis, 12/26/2024 6:34:24 AM
California has made a big bet on a technology to meet its self-imposed green energy target. It could work. Maybe. Might happen. If the real world matches the optimism. But there are challenging hurdles ahead. One, the concept is untried on an industrial scale. Floating offshore wind turbines, which California believes will provide a full quarter of the state’s electric power by 2045, “is largely underdeveloped in the United States,” host Kevin Sliman says in an interview with two Penn State University Institute of Energy and the Environment professors. “There’s a few kind of like one-off test turbines that are typically much smaller than what you would do on a fixed platform,”
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