The US has a huge amount of land with a very good supply of wind, and this has been developed with a large amount of WTs – wind turbines.\u00a0 Iowa has a lot of WTs, but Texas is the WT leader by far, with over 30 Gigawatts of installed WTs.\u00a0 Installing WTs is relatively easy because the area is sparsely populated, with thousands of square miles of federal or state land.\u00a0 The main disadvantage of installing WTs in those areas is the necessity of installing HV transmission lines to the population centers closer to the coasts.\u00a0 Installing offshore WTs would reduce the distances to population centers, but offshore WTs have their own disadvantages.\u00a0 The underwater cables are more expensive than onshore, so some of the advantage of shorter distances are lost.\u00a0 But the biggest disadvantage of offshore is the harsh marine environment means higher installation and maintenance costs.\u00a0 There has to be a special ship used for maintenance and servicing offshore WTs.\u00a0 It’s much easier to service onshore WTs.\u00a0 Plus the onshore WTs can be installed along with large solar farms and share the same power lines.\u00a0 It should also be mentioned that the onshore WTs are not as expensive as offshore, however it takes more onshore WTs to generate the same amount of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So someday when the “low hanging fruit” of US onshore WTs have all been picked, then there will be more incentive to install offshore WTs. Then there will be more offshore WTs in the Gulf of Mexico and East Coast of the US. But along the West Coast the WTs have to be floating in deep water, which is more expensive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/floodlightnews.org\/is-us-offshore-wind-dead-in-the-water-or-just-poised-for-the-next-big-gust\/?ref=im-a-reader-newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The US has a huge amount of land with a very good supply of wind, and this has been developed with a large amount of WTs – wind turbines.\u00a0 Iowa has a lot of WTs, but Texas is the WT leader by far, with over 30 Gigawatts of installed WTs.\u00a0 Installing WTs is relatively easy <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[955,841,950,162,722,3518,34,2390,348,542,2705],"tags":[3522,3523,712,3521,3519,3520],"class_list":["post-20092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","category-energy-transmission","category-generation","category-government-agencies","category-newsmedia","category-ocean-2","category-renewable-energy","category-transmission-electrical-system","category-websites","category-wind","category-wind-turbine","tag-advantages","tag-disadvantages","tag-offshore","tag-onshore","tag-wind-turbines","tag-wts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20093,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20092\/revisions\/20093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}