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Offshore wind farms are hitting the headlines for their size and for gaining government backing across the globe. Boosting offshore wind power is seen as a way to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and speed the journey to net zero, and it can also create jobs and economic growth.
National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE), Chennai will be the nodal agency to carryout resource assessment, surveys and studies in EEZ, demarcate blocks and facilitate developers for setting up offshore wind energy farms.
Unlike the typical use of the term "offshore" in the marine industry, offshore wind power includes inshore water areas such as lakes, fjords and sheltered coastal areas as well as deeper-water areas. Most offshore wind farms employ fixed-foundation wind turbines in relatively shallow water.
Jun 24, 2024 · As clean energy projects, the construction and operation of offshore wind farms have limited environmental pollution. In parallel, large-scale development and construction of wind power equipment normally occupy habitats to a certain extent and cause disturbances to the marine ecological environment, which could lead to the altering of marine life behaviour.
In 2023, 25 new offshore wind farms with a total capacity of 9.8 gigawatts (GW) were taken into operation, increasing the global off-shore wind capacity to a total of 67.4 GW. China remains the front runner with a total of 31.5 GW up and running.
Aug 24, 2023 · Most of today's offshore wind farms are fixed directly to the seabed and provide electricity directly to the grid. These fixed-bottom offshore wind farms, along with promising new types of wind farms, like floating and hydrogen-integrated, may reflect the future of what offshore wind in the United States could look like and what it could offer.
Jan 10, 2024 · Existing credits for offshore wind projects are being extended and expanded by the Inflation Reduction Act, with as much as 40% available on the cost of building a new wind farm.
Aug 24, 2023 · Offshore Wind Farms Use Undersea Cables to Transmit Electricity to the Grid: Electricity produced by offshore wind turbines travels back to land through a series of cable systems that are buried in the sea floor.
15.7 GW of global offshore wind capacity were added in 2021, driven by China due to the expiration of the Chinese feed-in tariff by the end of 2021. Globally, 53 new offshore wind farms went into operation1 in China (45), the UK (3), the Netherlands (2), Denmark (1), Taiwan (1), and Norway (1)
19 hours ago · The U.S. Interior Department on Tuesday approved the ninth commercial-scale offshore wind project, bringing the Biden administration closer to its goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind ...
