The potential for offshore wind energy in the United States is enormous. But so, too, are its costs. That’s why New York State is now soliciting 800 megawatts of offshore wind projects — something that it hopes will lead to 2,400 megawatts of such power by 2030.
While Europe has had much success when it comes to building offshore wind farms, the United States has not. It’s not just cost. It’s also logistics, or the contours of the Atlantic Ocean and the difficulty in transporting electrons back to the shoreline via transmission lines. But those impediments could be overcome if New York is able to get its wind projects off the ground.
