Offshore Wind
What we know — and don’t know — about offshore wind and whale deaths
Dead whales and tough economics bedevil Biden’s massive wind energy push
Biden wants to move energy offshore, but choppy seas are ahead
The Biden administration has set a goal that industry players call highly ambitious, if not unrealistic: to produce 30,000 megawatts of electricity from offshore wind farms by 2030, enough to power 10 million homes. Meeting this goal is one of the few available paths for President Biden to reduce the country’s reliance on fossil fuels and fight climate change.
WHOI Study Finds Offshore Pile Driving Noise Alters Feeding Behaviors of Longfin Squid
Study Finds That Offshore Pile Driving Noise Alters Feeding Behaviors Of Longfin Squid
With the offshore wind industry expanding in the United States and elsewhere, a new study raises questions about how the noise from impact pile driving to install turbine supports can affect feeding behaviors of longfin squid, a commercially and ecologically important cephalopod.
US DOE Gives $21 Million for Innovative Offshore Wind Technologies
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution of Massachusetts will collect offshore wind resource data off the coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island and use it to improve atmosphere-ocean simulation tools and reduce uncertainty in offshore wind resource assessment and forecasting.