The first, full-sized floating offshore wind turbine in the United States will tower 850 feet above the waves in the Gulf of Maine – roughly as tall as New York City’s famed 30 Rockefeller ...

Floating turbines are the only way some countries and U.S. states can capture offshore wind energy on a large scale. In the U.S. alone, 2.8 terawatts of wind energy potential blows over ocean ...

Offshore wind is well established in the U.K. and some other countries but is just beginning to ramp up off America’s coasts, and this is the nation’s first foray into floating wind turbines.

The Department of Energy has calculated that floating wind power could generate as much as 2.8 terawatts of energy in the U.S., more than double the country’s electricity consumption.

The Hywind Scotland project became the first commercial-scale offshore floating wind farm in 2017, with five 6-megawatt turbines supported by spar buoys designed by the Norwegian energy company ...

The Biden administration hopes to develop floating platforms in the deep ocean for wind towers that could power millions of homes and vastly expand offshore wind energy in the U.S.

Wind farms to be built off Humboldt, Morro Bay coasts, more than 20 miles from land ... One of two 9.5 megawatt floating wind turbines deployed at the Kincardine Offshore Wind project off the ...

The Government of Maine has really big plans for floating wind, a floating net zero fantasy, in fact. Since floating wind power is the next big green thing, it is worth taking a close look at this ...

Global floating wind capacity will have grown from less than 200 MW at the end of 2022 to around 61 GW of grid connected capacity by 2035. This activity will require over $250 billion in capital ...

Wind turbines are pictured on the first French offshore wind farm off the coasts of La Turballe, western France on September 30, 2022. California wants to add as much as 5,000 megawatts of ...

The world’s first floating offshore wind farm, Hywind Scotland, has been in operation since 2017. On its fifth birthday, its operators shared how it’s going and what they’ve learned.