The World’s Biggest Ocean Wind Project Goes To Work

The World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Just Came Online

Brian Kahn, June 2, 2019 (Eather)

“The UK is quickly becoming the epicenter of the offshore wind industry…[and just brought online] the first part of the world’s largest and furthest offshore wind farm…[T]he opening of the farm coupled with plans to construct a twin behemoth nearby shows that offshore wind is growing in leaps and bounds…The massive wind farm currently has 50 of its 174 turbines spinning. When completed, the project will have a generating capacity of 1.2 gigawatts, more than double the capacity of the current largest offshore wind installation (which is also in the UK). Because of its distance from shore, the team responsible for operating them will spend four weeks at sea before returning to port where another team will head on out and take their place…

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The turbines are located in the North Sea, a notoriously gusty stretch of open water where some of the world’s other large wind farms operate. They feed power back to the UK as well as the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Scandinavian countries. But of all the countries plopping wind farms in the North Sea, the UK is harnessing the most power…[according to the just-released Wind Europe report. In contrast, the U.S.] has just 30 megawatts (or 0.03 gigawatts, if you want to feel even more transatlantic shame) of offshore wind capacity…” click here for more

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