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Annual Report Highlights Major Accomplishments, Including Delivery of First Commercial-Scale Offshore Wind Energy Powering New York State.

New research published in Scientific Reports suggests that, when it comes to improving the offshore wind industry’s environmental footprint, building bigger turbines may be the wave of the future.

Eight miles out into the English Channel aboard a fishing vessel nicknamed the Beast, a group of tourists are staring up into a cloudless August sky and marveling at an otherworldly feat of engineering.

The Northeast Sea Grant Consortium, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office and Water Power Technologies Office, and NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center, today announced a research funding opportunity to improve understanding of offshore renewable energy interactions with fishing and coastal communities to optimize ocean co-use.

The national offshore wind energy target of 30 gigawatts (GW) by 2030 will require a significant ramp-up in domestic manufacturing, ports, vessels, and workforce, all of which are currently too limited to support the needed levels of commercial-scale offshore wind energy deployment.

Following years of funding into research and development in the wind energy sector, wind power technology has improved immensely, with the emergence of giant blades, quieter engines and floating turbines. Thanks to this development, energy companies are now investing in the launch of innovative new floating wind farms in various locations around the world.

In the latest step by the Biden-Harris administration to support the growing momentum across America for a clean energy future, the Department of the Interior today announced it will hold an offshore wind energy lease sale off southern Oregon. The two areas to be auctioned on October 15, 2024, by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management could generate more than 3.1 gigawatts of clean, renewable energy if fully developed, which could power approximately one million homes.

The energy transition requires a skilled workforce, but there is a global shortage of workers. To address these issues, a series of initiatives are underway in Scotland.

California has a goal to become carbon neutral by 2045. Putting wind turbines off the coast are part of the plan to get us there. But are we ready?

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced the availability of its final Environmental Assessment (EA) of the possible impacts from issuing leases for potential offshore wind energy development off the Oregon coast, including site assessment and site characterization activities such as geophysical, geological, and archaeological surveys. The EA concluded that lease issuance would have no significant impacts to people or the environment.

Massachusetts publishes website for Offshore Wind Jobs, the Clean Energy Careers Training & Education Directory

New York State has published a website to assist people interested in finding employment in their new offshore wind energy sector.