Who will build and run the fleets of monster boats needed to develop offshore wind?
U.S. wind builders are on the verge of developing the enormous wind assets off the Atlantic Coast and on the Great Lakes. A recent Oceana study suggested the Eastern Seaboard alone could see 127 gigawatts of wind capacity installed by 2030. That’s something like 25,000 huge wind turbines to be installed, serviced and maintained. New transmission will also be needed. The Oceana study foresaw 133,000 to 212,000 new jobs from the undertaking,… Read More › • Research & Analysis | Wind Herman K. Trabish: December 29, 2010 • Tweet • • Some Comments 6 Wind’s 2010 Top Ten: Bust and Building, Coming and Going Uncertainty is the word for 2010, but wind has many ways forward. The biggest headlines for the U.S. wind industry in 2010 held promise and foreboding for 2011. 1. Triumphant 2009 U.S. growth turns dismal. The wind industry’s 10 gigawatts of new installed capacity in 2009 fell off in 2010 as a year of policy uncertainty created by the failure of congressional action prompted angry words fr
