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Offshore wind power or offshore wind energy is the generation of electricity through wind farms in bodies of water, usually at sea. There are higher wind speeds offshore than on land, so offshore farms generate more electricity per amount of capacity installed. [ 1 ] Offshore wind farms are also less controversial [ 2 ] than those on land, as ...
Ørsted is the largest offshore wind farm company in the world [46] with a market share of 16%. [47] Ørsted surpassed 1,000 offshore wind turbines in 2016. [48] In Denmark, it operates the 209 MW Horns Rev 2 offshore wind farm.
South Fork Wind Farm is a utility-scale offshore wind farm on the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore Rhode Island, providing energy to New York state. [4]The 130 MW, 12-turbine wind is 16.6 nautical miles (30.7 km; 19.1 mi) southeast of Rhode Island's Block Island and 26 nautical miles (48 km; 30 mi) east of Montauk Point on the South Fork of New York's Long Island.
Vineyard Wind 1 is an offshore wind farm under construction in U.S. federal waters in the Atlantic Ocean in Bureau of Ocean Energy Management -designated Lease Area OCS-A 0520, about 13 nautical miles (24 km; 15 mi) south of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts. The array is designed to include 62 Haliade-X wind turbines manufactured ...
The state requested the lease from the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management for a floating offshore wind research array with up to a dozen turbines capable of generating up to 144 megawatts ...
Block Island Wind Farm was the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States, [ 5 ] located 3.8 mi (6.1 km) from Block Island, Rhode Island in the Atlantic Ocean. The five-turbine, 30 MW project was developed by Deepwater Wind, now known as Ørsted US Offshore Wind. Construction began in 2015, and in late summer 2016, five Alstom ...
A large group from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy''s Women on the Water conference get a very up close look at the wind turbine blades on a barge at the Vineyard Wind staging facility on the ...
The Vestas V164 is a three-bladed offshore wind turbine, produced by Vestas, with a nameplate capacity of up to 10 megawatts, a world record. [1] Vestas revealed the V164's design in 2011 with the first prototype unit operated at Østerild in northern Denmark in January 2014. [2] The first industrial units were installed in 2016 at Burbo Bank ...