The 2016
National Offshore Wind
Strategy report estimates the OSW gross resource potential (i.e. the tier just
above the base of the Figure 2 pyramid) within the nation's 200 nautical mile («nm») Exclusive Economic Zone boundary [3] to be approximately 10,800 GW, which would generate 44,378,000 GWh per year, approximately eleven times the net electricity generated by all
energy sources in the United States in 2015 (DOE / DOI 2016).