Massachusetts is contracting for 5,600 megawatts of offshore wind by 2027. North Carolina has a goal of 8,000 megawatts by 2040. Maryland has approved more than 2,000 megawatts of offshore wind capacity.
Virginia’s Dominion Energy is pushing to get its 2,600 megawatt commercial project finished by 2026, and the state wants a total of 5,200 megawatts by 2034. New Jersey just announced a new 11,000 megawatt offshore wind target, the largest in the country. (Image courtesy of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory) Areas with annual average wind speeds of seven meters per second and greater at that height are “generally considered to have a wind resource suitable for offshore development,” according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. is a key market for Ørsted at this point.” Predicted mean annual wind speeds at 90 meters in height along the U.S. and that’s in direct response to the potential here,” Urbish said.
“We’ve significantly increased our workforce here in the U.S. electric load is in coastal or Great Lakes states near offshore wind resources. Department of Energy has estimated that domestic offshore wind generation potential is roughly equal to double the nation’s total electric demand. With nearly 95,500 miles of coastline and steady wind resources offshore, developers like Ørsted see vast potential in the U.S. When we get down to the challenges we see from the grid it becomes immediately less sexy,” Urbish said. “So that’s incredibly encouraging and exciting for the industry. The Danish company, a world leader in offshore wind, currently has 5,000 megawatts of projects under development or under construction in U.S. “It is so exciting to see the goals put forward and it’s a great signal and clear signal to the industry,” said Maddy Urbish, head of government affairs and market strategy for New Jersey at Ørsted North America. The federal announcements come as coastal states across the country are increasingly setting offshore wind energy targets, seeking to capture not just clean energy but the potentially big economic benefits of their ports serving as hubs for the vessels, blade manufacturing, cables and other infrastructure needed to get turbines more than 850 feet tall installed miles out at sea.īut amid news releases touting megawatt targets and jobs, there’s been less attention on the challenge of bringing all that electricity ashore and connecting it to a grid that was designed to bring power to the coast, not the other way around. President Joe Biden’s administration laid out ambitious additional goals last month to boost offshore wind power generation, one of the American renewable energy industry’s emerging wide open frontiers.
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