Wind Power: Offshore Boom in the US – Huge Opportunity for German Companies

New York, Brussels If you sail west from Humboldt Bay in Northern California, you could see floating German wind turbines on the horizon in the future. A few weeks before Christmas, the offshore wind division of the Essen energy group RWE won an auction for a wind farm 40 kilometers off the west coast of America.

does not want RWE Offshore Wind Power Install wind turbines capable of producing 1.6 gigawatts of electricity by the mid-2030s, enough to power 640,000 homes with renewable energy.

they had a lot of time USA it slept offshore during the expansion of wind power, while Europeans pushed ahead with wind farms off their coasts. So far in the United States there are only two small pilot projects in Rhode Island and Virginia, where the turbines are already turning. But now the Americans are catching up.

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