offshore wind
value Connection›Sustainability
subject How we live together›Earth & what we build on it›Energy
created 2026/03/30 modified 2026/09/19
- Wind stocks: how investors can get in on America's emerging offshore wind market
- Avangrid (AVG): off the coast of Martha's Vineyard; part of a Spanish company — BOEM approved permitting 02/04/21. Permitting update
- Deepwater Wind: owns current wind farm in RI; part of a Danish company
- Shell and Eneco: offshore wind farm near the Netherlands — Amazon signed on as a major customer
- WSJ on floating offshore wind: several companies making platforms for floating turbines; includes Equinor (EQNR, formerly Statoil) — Norwegian energy company now heavily invested in wind
- Vestas (VWDRY): turbine company, recently invested in a Swedish biomaterials company
- The US offshore wind boom will depend on these ships — The Verge
- Offshore energy gets a second wind under Biden: new turbines proposed for Vineyard Wind off Cape Cod could provide green energy, but the science of their environmental impact is murky — WIRED
- Biden's new moonshot: an offshore wind industry to rival Europe's: on the promising trajectory of the industry — Grist
- Floating wind farms are about to transform the oceans: one way or another, life just off the coast of California is about to change — Judith Lewis Mernit, The Atlantic
- Floating platforms offer huge advantages and opportunities for renewables
- Will be able to be mass-produced → likely cost reduction
- Wind revs up in the evening and at night, when solar is winding down and people come home, need AC, and charge cars
- Challenges: balancing with other industrial and natural uses of the ocean (fishing, whale migration, marine life habitat, etc.)