New York, Brussels If you sail west from Humboldt Bay in northern California, you could see floating German wind turbines on the horizon in the future. A few weeks before Christmas, the offshore wind division of the Essen-based energy group RWE was awarded the contract for a wind farm 40 kilometers off the American West Coast at an auction.
RWE Offshore Wind wants to install wind turbines there by the mid-2030s that can produce 1.6 gigawatts of electricity – enough to supply 640,000 households with renewable energy.
For a long time, the USA had slept on the expansion of wind power on the high seas, while the Europeans were pushing ahead with wind farms off their coasts. So far in the United States there are only two small pilot projects in Rhode Island and Virginia, where turbines are already turning. But now the Americans are catching up.
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