Recently, in Denmark in seven European countries along the coast, more than 800 giant wind turbines in the rotation — use of strong winds for power generation, enough power for the hundreds of thousands of families.
In addition, China’s first offshore wind farm near Shanghai — Enterprise is also a 102-megawatt line this month, while many more wind farms in preparation.
However, despite efforts for a decade, but the United States in an offshore wind turbines are not safe as … …
Although there are hundreds of European coastal wind turbines in the rotation, but the U.S. wind power industry has just begun. This week, Obama announced a government decision to the sea — building in Massachusetts Cape Cod wind project — which could push the first U.S. offshore wind farm project completion.
Advocates:
We need power
“Cape Cod wind farm construction is essential — we need power.” U.S. wind power industry advocates say. Now, in the U.S. East Coast and Great Lakes in shallow waters, has been planned at least six offshore wind projects.
According to the American Wind Energy Association said the United States at the design stage of these projects if completed as planned, will produce about 2,500 megawatts of electricity, the equivalent of two medium-sized nuclear power plant generating capacity. Cape Cod wind energy project in Nantucket Island, the Gulf will be installed 130 turbines, the cost may be more than one billion U.S. dollars.
The project’s developers and advocates said the sea has important advantages of wind power projects: land-sea breeze and the lake wind than the wind stronger, more stable and more reliable; offshore turbines can be installed from the coastal population in the vicinity of power shortage , eliminating the need for land lines; if far away enough to install offshore turbines, would not significantly change the landscape.
Opponents:
Land has yet to be developed
However, opponents argue that wind power industry are too expensive. Management of uncertainty makes offshore wind development has become the cause of the United States arbitrariness. In the harsh environment construction and maintenance of marine turbines will lead to high costs.
It is reported that the complete installation of offshore wind energy system price is estimated at 4,600 U.S. dollars per kilowatt, close to twice the terrestrial system. “The United States is not the reason offshore wind farm and the land there are many places to be developed a great relationship.” Energy analyst Mountain Mujie Fei said, “you have not developed in North Dakota, when, why to cost more expensive sea go? ”
However, despite the Cape Cod wind energy project in the struggle was hard, but other parts of the United States has emerged a small but identified wind energy industry. Also, last Wednesday, Obama also called for the government, want to build wind energy projects in the Delaware coast companies to provide a formal Letter of Intent program. U.S. Offshore Wind Farm project is completed within reach.
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