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Offshore Wind

Fortunes Return to the Sea as the Wind Blows Offshore

By Bob Kunkel, Alternative Marine Technologies some of the problems, heralding a world of change with

The results of fortunes reduced emissions, government support and the end of fos- and failures are often described as a “perfect storm”. The sil fuels as we know them in energy and marine operations.

COVID pandemic, domestic in? ation, labor issues and With those promises came big movements in the U.S. current geopolitical events have brought that description offshore wind industry, which aims to tap into an estimat- to a peak. A promise of a “new normal” emerged post pan- ed gross resource potential of 10,800 gigawatts (GW) of demic, with a vision of alternative energy, alternative fuels wind capacity along the U.S. East Coast and Great Lakes and alternative supply chain logistics to help toward solving (U.S. Department of Energy, 2016), the actual technical © Cavan / Adobe Stock 30 | MN November 2022