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Baystreet Staff - Monday, August 21, 2017
Why Tesla Is Interested In Offshore Wind
Platt’s recently reported that global offshore wind capacity could double to 34 GWs by 2020, growing at a compound rate of 19 percent per year. The rapid expansion would be driven chiefly by new capacity in the North Sea and China. In fact, offshore capacity in East Asia will outstrip that of Europe by 2022.
But what about the U.S.?
Rapidly declining costs, improving reliability and the success of the first offshore installation in Rhode Island are encouraging companies to take further chances on offshore wind. New offshore projects are attracting the interest and attention of major energy companies, as wind power continues to increase its share of the total U.S. energy market.
Leases for offshore wind development are being snapped up by European energy companies, which have decades of experience installing offshore wind farms.
Royal Dutch/Shell has been investing in electricity start-ups and other ventures to improve its competitiveness in non-fossil fuel fields.
Norway’s Statoil won a license to develop a farm off the coast of New York, and seeks to expand to California and Hawaii, reallocating resources from its oil and gas division. The New York lease went to Statoil after a $42.47 million bid for around seventy-nine thousand acres.
Statoil is on the cutting-edge of wind technology and spearheads the Hywind project off the coast of Scotland, the world’s first floating wind farm.
Denmark’s DONG Energy has won a lease in Massachusetts, holds another lease in New Jersey and recently opted to spin off its oil and gas divisions so it could focus exclusively on renewables. The Danish company holds a dominant share (29 percent) of global installed offshore wind capacity.
DONG recently beat second quarter profit forecast, and is looking to expand into new opportunities in New York, Maryland and Virginia, according to the company’s spokesperson.
An attempt at constructing wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts near Cape Cod failed in 2001 due to local resistance, environmental concerns and other issues.
But a new effort is being made by DONG Energy, working with Rhode Island-based Deepwater Wind, to install 144 MW of capacity with a 40 MW/hour Tesla battery storage system, allowing the turbines
to collect additional energy at night and securing more reliability from wind turbines that historically have found it difficult to match supply with demand. ...]