Offshore wind advocates are calling for changes to RTO transmission planning and cost allocation rules to reduce costs and development risks for connecting an estimated 30 GW of generation on the East Coast through 2035. In a white paper released Oct. 26, the Business Network for Offshore Wind lays out...

California’s port infrastructure will pose a key — but not insurmountable — obstacle to the development of floating offshore wind (FOSW) projects along the state’s coastline, industry experts said Thursday. The subject arose during a scoping workshop the California Energy Commission convened to seek public input on its "draft research...

Permits are the first things needed to continue developing a sustainable supply chain for the U.S. offshore wind industry. All else flows from that starting point, a panel told the American Wind Energy Association’s Offshore Windpower Virtual Summit on Wednesday. "I’m tired of talking about potential; I want to talk...

An estimated 20,000 to 30,000 MW of offshore wind capacity representing a $28 billion to $57 billion investment in the U.S. economy will be operational by 2030, according to the U.S. Offshore Wind Power Economic Impact Assessment. OSW project development, construction and operations could bring a projected 83,000 jobs in that...

West Coast offshore wind developers can draw on environmental lessons from projects in the Atlantic Ocean, but they must still prepare for challenges unique to the Pacific, a panel of experts said Tuesday. Developers should also work among themselves and with independent researchers to collect and standardize as much ocean...

A discussion at the American Wind Energy Association Offshore Windpower Virtual Summit on Tuesday reinforced the argument that a planned transmission network for offshore wind would be more beneficial than the current every-project-for-itself approach. But it also brought urgency to the issue. The benefits of an offshore network decreases with...

Offshore wind advocates said Wednesday they are confident the industry will retain its bipartisan support regardless of the results of the U.S. elections this year. "We are in a world now where utilities in Indiana are rushing forward building wind farms," said Seth Kaplan, director of government and regulatory affairs...

Almost four years after the first wind turbines began commercial operations in American waters, and three weeks before an election that could change federal policy on climate change, speakers at the American Wind Energy Association Offshore Windpower Virtual Summit said it is time to engage everyone in the need for...

Michael Hanson has been in the wind energy workforce for 14 years. He started onshore, managing the operation, maintenance and repair of turbines at a number of sites before moving to the first offshore wind farm in the Western Hemisphere, the 5-MW facility off Block Island, R.I. It takes a...

A 2019 outage event in the United Kingdom highlights the need for both comprehensive underfrequency load shedding (UFLS) protection and an understanding of the impact of a "rapidly changing portfolio" of generation resources on reliability of the electric grid, according to a "lessons learned" notice from NERC. The incident began...