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Last Year in Review: Commercial Offshore Wind Energy Making Tangible Gains

Annual Report Highlights Major Accomplishments, Including Delivery of First Commercial-Scale Offshore Wind Energy Powering New York State.

A Biologist Shares 2 Environmental Benefits Of Offshore ‘Mega-Windmills’

New research published in Scientific Reports suggests that, when it comes to improving the offshore wind industry’s environmental footprint, building bigger turbines may be the wave of the future.

All aboard for the offshore wind farm cruise, a powerful attraction

Eight miles out into the English Channel aboard a fishing vessel nicknamed the Beast, a group of tourists are staring up into a cloudless August sky and marveling at an otherworldly feat of engineering.

DOE, Sea Grant, NOAA Fisheries partner to invest $1M+ to support research for the co-existence of ocean energy with Northeast fishing and coastal communities

The Northeast Sea Grant Consortium, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office and Water Power Technologies Office, and NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center, today announced a research funding opportunity to improve understanding of offshore renewable energy interactions with fishing and coastal communities to optimize ocean co-use.

Supply Chain Road Map for Offshore Wind Energy in the United States

The national offshore wind energy target of 30 gigawatts (GW) by 2030 will require a significant ramp-up in domestic manufacturing, ports, vessels, and workforce, all of which are currently too limited to support the needed levels of commercial-scale offshore wind energy deployment.

Floating Wind Farms Set Sail for a Greener Future

Following years of funding into research and development in the wind energy sector, wind power technology has improved immensely, with the emergence of giant blades, quieter engines and floating turbines. Thanks to this development, energy companies are now investing in the launch of innovative new floating wind farms in various locations around the world.

Biden-Harris Administration Announces First-Ever Wind Lease Sale Offshore Oregon

In the latest step by the Biden-Harris administration to support the growing momentum across America for a clean energy future, the Department of the Interior today announced it will hold an offshore wind energy lease sale off southern Oregon. The two areas to be auctioned on October 15, 2024, by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management could generate more than 3.1 gigawatts of clean, renewable energy if fully developed, which could power approximately one million homes.

How Scotland is finding solutions to workforce gaps in offshore wind

The energy transition requires a skilled workforce, but there is a global shortage of workers. To address these issues, a series of initiatives are underway in Scotland.

Is California ready for offshore wind energy? (video ABC10)

California has a goal to become carbon neutral by 2045. Putting wind turbines off the coast are part of the plan to get us there. But are we ready?

BOEM Finalizes Environmental Review of Wind Leases Offshore Oregon

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced the availability of its final Environmental Assessment (EA) of the possible impacts from issuing leases for potential offshore wind energy development off the Oregon coast, including site assessment and site characterization activities such as geophysical, geological, and archaeological surveys. The EA concluded that lease issuance would have no significant impacts to people or the environment.

Massachusetts Get Serious About Offshore Wind Jobs.

Massachusetts publishes website for Offshore Wind Jobs, the Clean Energy Careers Training & Education Directory

New York State Gets Serious About Offshore Wind Jobs

New York State has published a website to assist people interested in finding employment in their new offshore wind energy sector.

News Archive

Wind turbine farms in Britain have grown in the last 10 years - is the UK the Saudi Arabia of wind power?

https://news.sky.com/story/the-ballooning-of-british-wind-turbine-farms-is-the-uk-the-saudi-arabia-of-wind-power-12282674

President Biden pushes offshore wind

as green energy alternative

Under Biden, will offshore wind finally drive major energy gains in the U.S.?

Time for Oregon to make best use of Federal Support

 

FACT SHEET: Biden Administration Jumpstarts Offshore Wind Energy Projects to Create Jobs

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/29/fact-sheet-biden-administration-jumpstarts-offshore-wind-energy-projects-to-create-jobs/

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo Announces Efforts to Advance Offshore Wind Power Generation

 

https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2021/03/us-secretary-commerce-gina-m-raimondo-announces-efforts-advance

NOAA signs data-share agreement with offshore wind energy company

 

https://www.noaa.gov/media-release/noaa-signs-data-share-agreement-with-offshore-wind-energy-company

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