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Offshore wind power: engine of the global
energy transitionDarius Snieckus
Editor in Chief
Recharge
www.rechargenews.com
First offshore wind farm:
Vindeby, off Denmark (1991)
Cost: €10 million
Developer: SEAS and Elkraft
Turbines: 11 x 450kW Bonus
Total capacity: 4.95MW
Decommisioned: 2017
Biggest offshore wind farm under
development: Hornsea One (2021)
Cost: €3.36bn
Developer: Orsted
Turbines: 174 x 7MW Siemens
Gamesa SWT7.0-154
Total capacity: 1.2GW (Power
to 1m UK homes)
Offshore wind news in Recharge
week of 15 January 2019
Increase in turbine power rating
Reduction in levellised cost of energy
Europe today accounts for 85% of
operational offshore wind plant
Record low subsidy prices boosting
investor confidence
US: Only 30MW turning but three state-level
tenders totaling 1.8GW – and more ahead
Asia Pacific – 20-fold
growth to 43GW by 2027
Cumulative offshore
wind capacity in Asia
Pacific will grow to
43GW in the next
decade, up from just
over 2GW in 2017:
Wood Mackenzie
China will take the
lead with 31GW
installed (72%); Taiwan
8.7GW (20%), along
with South Korea (4%),
India (3%) & Japan (1%)
Global build-out to reach 87GW by 2026
Offshore wind capacity on trajectory to
reach 520GW by 2050
The future is floating
‘Civilization-scale’ power
Carnegie Institution for Science 2017 study
3 million square km in North Atlantic
Wind speeds 70% higher over sea than land
Total capacity: 18TW
Thank you
darius.snieckus@rechar
genews.com
www.rechargenews.co
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@dariussnieckus