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The US Department of Energy has poured a ton of figurative blood, sweat, and tears into supporting innovative floating platforms for offshore wind turbines, only to see them float off to Europe where public policy support for offshore wind development runs strong. Now that the US is finally getting its policy ducks in the water, made-in-the-USA floating wind platforms are finally coming home.
Floating Platforms For More Offshore Wind
Floating wind turbine platforms are an engineering challenge, but the Energy Department has been pitching them as the key to opening up vast offshore wind resources in deep water, where conventional fixed-bottom platforms are impractical if not impossible (see more floating wind news here).
One focus of Energy Department support for the US floating wind…
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