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🌬️ The UK offshore wind industry faces substantial challenges due to material shortages, particularly in steel production. Addressing this and other challenges, such as the shortages of installation vessels and supply chain disruptions, is essential to ensure the sector continues to thrive both in the UK and worldwide. Overcoming the obstacles and moving towards a greener future will require proactive measures, including:- 👉 Enhanced supply chain resilience 👉 Investment in local manufacturing capabilities 👉 Promoting International cooperation Read the full story on "Material Shortages Challenge in the Offshore Wind Industry" in our latest blog here: https://bit.ly/3WNz6Pt #OffshoreWindProjects #OffshoreWind #OffshoreWindIndustry #RenewableEnergy

The False Economic Promises of Offshore Wind https://buff.ly/3TxcvVI #ElectricVehicles #EVMovement #GreenTransport #EVRevolution #ZeroEmissions #SmartGrid #EnergyInnovation #SmartTechnology #GreenTech #SustainableTech

Never capable of delivering power on demand, offshore wind is as pointless as pushing on string. As the most expensive way of (occasionally) generating electricity, only the terminally insane would consider investing a nickel. Which is why rent-seekers rigged the game with massive subsidies, mandates and tax breaks from the get go. The value of the subsidies outstrips the astronomical cost of generating power using sea breezes and the true value of the power generated, by a whopping margin. In the piece below, Gordon Hughes runs the ruler over the colossal cost of offshore wind and compares it with its non-existent ‘benefits’, identifying unwitting taxpayers as one of the wind industry’s many victims.

Back in 1983 the American Wind Industry Association claimed that wind power would be “competitive and self-supporting on a national level by the end of the decade if assisted by tax credits and augmented by federally sponsored R&D”.

Thanks to Tina Casey for weighing on the future of #WIND in the US during these stressful times. Saved by the Supply Chain: How Offshore Wind Stakeholders Hope to Survive and Thrive The offshore wind industry appears to be especially vulnerable to a change in federal energy policy after the 2024 election, but stakeholders are in a much better position to engage bipartisan support than a few years ago thanks to the supply chain. https://lnkd.in/guDbCk-v

The United States will fall far short of the Biden administration's 2030 offshore wind goal but will catch up quickly in the following years, according to an analysis by an industry group published on Tuesday. #offshorewind #installedwindcapacity #joebiden #usa

The swedish wind energy association (SWEA) has called on the government to underline the upcoming compensation measures for municipalities will apply to offshore wind schemes as well as onshore arrays #offshorewind #windpower #windfarm #sweden

As the clock ticks down to a #DonaldTrump administration hostile to #offshorewind, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management pushes consenting for 7GW of development in the New York Bight another step forward Oceantic Network American Clean Power Association (ACP) WORLD FORUM OFFSHORE WIND (WFO) International Energy Agency (IEA) #renewableenergy #windpower