{"id":2577,"date":"2020-03-17T11:04:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T15:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2020-12-18T13:28:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T18:28:39","slug":"why-is-the-united-states-east-coast-an-optimal-location-for-offshore-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/ate\/why-is-the-united-states-east-coast-an-optimal-location-for-offshore-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the United States&#8217; East Coast an Optimal Location for Offshore Wind?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"question_context\">This question was supplied by the &#8216;Ask the Experts&#8217; database managers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"question_review\">Reviewed by: <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jeff Grybowski<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"question_update\">Last Update: July 22nd, 2020<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/globaloceansummit\/global-ocean-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global Ocean Summit Series: Session 4<\/a>, Jeff Grybowski (Former CEO of Deepwater Wind) explained why the United States&#8217; East Coast is an economically advantageous location for the development of offshore wind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">First, there is demand. The Northeast is comprised of highly concentrated coastal communities. From an energy perspective, this poses a problem\u2014it is difficult to build power plants that are large enough to meet the demand in these populated areas where property values are especially high.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2580\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2580\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2580 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1487\/MAP-2-1024x502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1487\/MAP-2-1024x502.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1487\/MAP-2-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1487\/MAP-2-768x376.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1487\/MAP-2-364x178.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1487\/MAP-2-500x245.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1487\/MAP-2-1000x490.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1487\/MAP-2-1280x627.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1487\/MAP-2.jpg 1429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of offshore wind potential created by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is where offshore wind comes into play. The US Northeast has a large concentration of high wind speeds that are optimal for the development of offshore wind turbines<sup>1<\/sup>. The figure below from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrel.gov\/\">NREL<\/a> shows a map of these coastal wind speeds where the darker red indicates the higher speeds.<\/p>\n<p>The final factor that marks the Northeast as an attractive location for offshore wind is the buildable location. As <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grybowski says, &#8220;another happy coincidence [is] that exactly where we have both supply of power and a great need for this power, we have a location that&#8217;s buildable for offshore wind&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed oembed-youtu-be\" style=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Gcyq-AAJw1Y?t=2969\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Global Ocean Series, Session 4 on the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gcyq-AAJw1Y?start=2969&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<h2>Additional Resources<\/h2>\n<p>Office of Energy Efficiency &amp; Renewable Energy Offshore Wind Research and Development<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/eere\/wind\/offshore-wind-research-and-development\">https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/eere\/wind\/offshore-wind-research-and-development<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>&nbsp;<br \/>\nSources<\/h2>\n<p>[1] <a href=\"https:\/\/atb.nrel.gov\/electricity\/2018\/index.html?t=ow\">https:\/\/atb.nrel.gov\/electricity\/2018\/index.html?t=ow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Global Ocean Summit Series: Session 4, Jeff Grybowski (Former CEO of Deepwater Wind) explained why the United States&#8217; East Coast is an economically advantageous location for the development of offshore wind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8617,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/8617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}