California is planning floating wind farms offshore to boost its power supply – here’s how they work
Northern California has some of the strongest offshore winds in the U.S., with immense potential to produce clean energy. But it has a problem. Its continental shelf drops off quickly, making building traditional wind turbines directly on the seafloor costly if not impossible. Once water gets more than about 200 feet deep – roughly the height […] Read more
President Donald Trump’s fawning relati0nship with U.S. oil and gas companies has taken a momentary pause, following Trump’s decision to extend an offshore drilling moratorium in the southern United States for ten more years. With the coastlines of Florida, South Carolina and Georgia now off-limits, the oil sector has found itself in rare moment of […] Read more
The State of New York has announced its second offshore wind solicitation, seeking up to 2,500 MW of projects. The solicitation includes a multi-port strategy and requirement for offshore wind generators to partner with any of the eleven prequalified New York ports to stage, construct, manufacture key components, or coordinate operations and maintenance activities. Funding […] Read more
Jordan has topped a list of countries which appear to have siphoned large sums of foreign aid into offshore bank accounts, World Bank analysis shows. In 2018-19, Jordan received £2.13 billion ($2.6 billion) in foreign aid, including £110 million ($134 million) from Britain. According to the study, over a ten-year period, $3.13 billion was transferred out of […] Read more
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged to increase the UK’s 2030 offshore wind target from the current 30GW to 40GW if his Conservative party wins the general election. UK’s current target to have 30GW of connected offshore wind capacity by 2030 was set with the launch of a new joint government-industry Offshore Wind Sector […] Read more
