Offshore wind's opportunity costs discourage institutions from providing the billion - dollar financing needed for
ocean wind projects.
As a result, «There are no banks in the world willing to finance offshore wind in the United States,» whereas at least nine European
ocean wind projects have found bank support.
Orsted's
Ocean Wind project, planned for about 10 miles off Atlantic City, could generate up to 3,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 1.5 million homes, said company President Thomas Brostrom.
Not exact matches
New York officials are seeking to expand offshore
wind generation in the Atlantic
Ocean, and has proposed four new sites for
wind energy
projects to the federal Bureau of
Ocean Energy Management.
«When we included
projected Antarctic
wind shifts in a detailed global
ocean model, we found water up to 4 °C warmer than current temperatures rose up to meet the base of the Antarctic ice shelves,» said lead author Dr Paul Spence from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS).
The
project, called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the
Ocean (ECCO), uses observational data — including ocean surface topography, surface wind stress, temperature, salinity profiles and velocity data — collected between June 2005 and December
Ocean (ECCO), uses observational data — including
ocean surface topography, surface wind stress, temperature, salinity profiles and velocity data — collected between June 2005 and December
ocean surface topography, surface
wind stress, temperature, salinity profiles and velocity data — collected between June 2005 and December 2007.
In a
project funded by electronics giant Samsung, a team of Penn State materials scientists and electrical engineers has designed a mechanical energy transducer based on flexible organic ionic diodes that points toward a new direction in scalable energy harvesting of unused mechanical energy in the environment, including
wind,
ocean waves and human motion.
The agency says it will lease plots of the shelf to developers of
wind parks and other renewable energy
projects, such as
ocean current and wave - harvesting technologies.
In this way, it continues the investigations he began with Automatic, a
project in which he used
wind and
ocean currents to power a series of drawing machines.
Created on an intimate scale, it nevertheless
projects a pronounced gravity, prefiguring the extraordinary Peine del Viento (
Wind Comb) that Chillida completed in San Sebastián in 1977, whose majestic, sculpted architecture grasps at the air, stretching out towards the Atlantic
Ocean.
Climate models
project a continued intensification in the Southern
Ocean winds throughout the 21st century if atmospheric CO2 continues to increase (28).
Instead, floating
wind projects are tethered, or moored, by cables to the
ocean floor but don't penetrate the surface.
An illustration of potential designs for floating offshore
wind projects, which need to be developed in order to generate
wind energy off the coast of California and other states along the Pacific
Ocean.
The heads of the two agencies have agreed, in broad terms, that the FERC would have the authority to license
ocean wave and tidal energy
projects while the interior department would issue the final permits for solar and
wind projects in areas beyond the state waters.
The announcement arrived two months after the interior department settled a dispute with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) over who has authority over issuing leases and licenses for
projects that generate electricity using
wind and
ocean currents in the outer continental shelf.
JOC.com New York state plans a potentially «game - changing» bid on a federal lease to develop an Atlantic
Ocean wind farm that could generate sizeable demand for heavy - lift and other
project shipments.
Drought is expected to occur 20 - 40 percent more often in most of Australia over the coming decades.6, 18 If our heat - trapping emissions continue to rise at high rates, 19 more severe droughts are
projected for eastern Australia in the first half of this century.6, 17 And droughts may occur up to 40 percent more often in southeast Australia by 2070.2 Unless we act now to curb global warming emissions, most regions of the country are expected to suffer exceptionally low soil moisture at almost double the frequency that they do now.3 Studies suggest that climate change is helping to weaken the trade
winds over the Pacific
Ocean, with the potential to change rainfall patterns in the region, including Australia.20, 21,16,22
Ships that are solar and
wind powered could change all that, but at the moment there is no political will to even want to investigate the possibilities with studies, and / or test
projects aimed at the eventual phase in of truly clean
ocean transport.
The researchers then built a statistical model to
project how typhoon peak
wind speeds are likely to change as the
oceans continue to warm in the future.
NRG Bluewater
Wind President Peter Mandelstam used the proceeds from the 2001 sale of a wind project he built in Montana to found Bluewater Wind and focus on ocean w
Wind President Peter Mandelstam used the proceeds from the 2001 sale of a
wind project he built in Montana to found Bluewater Wind and focus on ocean w
wind project he built in Montana to found Bluewater
Wind and focus on ocean w
Wind and focus on
ocean windwind.
If the
projects successfully demonstrate the twisted jacket foundations, engineers may use the design in future offshore
wind projects in locations such as the Atlantic Wind Energy Areas established by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Managem
wind projects in locations such as the Atlantic
Wind Energy Areas established by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Managem
Wind Energy Areas established by the Bureau of
Ocean Energy Management.
Another presenter at the session, Paul Chang, a
project scientist who studies satellite
ocean surface
wind data at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park, Md., said that the current method that is largely used by U.S. scientists in this area of research, known as the Dvorak technique, employs satellite imagery to estimate tropical cyclone intensity but is imprecise and subjective.
Deepwater
Wind ensures that for each
project under development, wildlife, the environment, or other users of the
ocean won't be adversely impacted.
And now, the National Weather Service
projects a whopper of a North Atlantic storm will pack 90 mile - per - hour hurricane strength
winds into the Arctic
Ocean between Greenland and Iceland this week, breaking up even more sea ice.
-- The term «renewable energy» means energy generated from solar,
wind, biomass, landfill gas,
ocean (including tidal, wave, current, and thermal), geothermal, municipal solid waste, or new hydroelectric generation capacity achieved from increased efficiency or additions of new capacity at an existing hydroelectric
project.
Better metocean characterization of the
wind, wave, and
ocean currents will also help increase certainty of development conditions which is valuable information for planning
project layout, turbine siting and engineering.
The previous and present models do
project the possibility of a hiatus in warming, most commonly because increased
wind shear over tropical
oceans can transfer more energy into the
oceans especialy during the La Nina phase of the ENSO cycle.
«We'll prudently maintain our offshore
wind assets — which includes working with the Bureau of
Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on a lease for the Delaware
project — and continue to seek a buyer or major investor for that
project.»
A number of modelling studies have also
projected a general tendency for more intense but fewer storms outside the tropics, with a tendency towards more extreme
wind events and higher
ocean waves in several regions in association with those deepened cyclones.
The
project's local contractors included: AECOM, Aero Mechanical Inc., AIS Observers, Aladdin Electric, Badd Brothers, Bay Crane New England, Blount Boats, Challenge Electronics, Communication Systems Inc., DiPrete Engineering, Duffy & Shanley, E.W. Audet, Eagle Elevator, ESS Group, Essex Newbury, Fuss & O'Neill, GeoEnvironmental, GZA, Hart Engineering, Hinckley Allen, Inspire Environmental, Keough & Sweeney, Mayforth Group, Meridan
Ocean Services, Mott MacDonald, National Grid, Rhode Island Fast Ferry's Atlantic
Wind Transfers, Specialty Diving Services, VHB, Waterson Terminal Services, and WF Shea, among others.
With all of the attention being paid to where the United States» first offshore
wind farm will be located — there are existing proposals at various stages for
ocean - based offshore
wind farms in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New York and Texas — New York Power Authority (NYPA) yesterday announced a major public - private initiative for the potential development of
wind power
projects in the state of New York's fresh waters of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
Days later Siemens AG (SIE) announced it's selling Marine Current Turbines Ltd... Already the top 20 wave and tidal - stream businesses have amassed losses of $ 903 million over their lifetimes, according to BNEF data... «This is the capitalist survival - of - the - fittest process working as normal in any new market area,» McCrone said by e-mail... As other renewables such as solar and
wind have reduced cost to become commercially viable, waves and tides remain the most expensive sources of power, costing four times more than coal, BNEF estimates... Oceanlinx Ltd. and Wavebob Ltd. both failed in the past 18 months, and
Ocean Power Technologies Inc., one of the only listed marine energy businesses, canceled a
project inAustralia.
Projects like Cape
Wind, proposed for shallow waters just off Cape Cod in Massachusetts, met with fierce objections from residents who felt it would mar the
ocean vista.
Windsat is a joint IPO / DOD / NASA risk reduction demonstration
project intended to measure
ocean surface
wind speed and
wind direction from space using a polarimetric radiometer.