![]() Roughly 30 other projects remain in various forms of development. A small pilot project has become active off the coast of Virginia. Yet two decades after that first offshore project in Denmark, Europe had eight operational offshore wind farms while the United States had none.Īs late as 2020, Rhode Island’s Block Island Wind Farm was still the United States’ only commercial operating offshore wind installation, which came online in 2016. coasts could generate four-times the electricity the country needs. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has estimated that the winds off U.S. Europe’s first offshore wind installation, Denmark’s Vindeby, came online in 1991 with a capacity of 4.9 MW. adoption of offshore wind technology has been slow compared to European counterparts. By Marla Keene, technology writer, AX Control ![]()
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