The Big Opportunity In Wind

Wind power will creates jobs, too

Michael Dobie, October 8, 2017 (Newsday)

“…[The five turbine, 30 MW Block Island offshore wind farm, the first ocean wind project in the U.S., went online off Rhode Island] in December…[The builder, Dewepwater Wind, will next build the 90 MW South Fork Wind Farm off New York. It] will be the nation’s first utility-scale wind farm…[and will] feed Long Island’s power-starved East End by the end of 2022…Europe has nearly 3,600 offshore wind turbines in 10 countries with a capacity of more than 12,600 MW…The U.S. Department of Energy says the nation’s ‘technical’ offshore wind capacity is 2,000 gigawatts. All U.S. fossil fuel plants together produce about half that…Most of the new turbines won’t be visible from shore, but even if they did dot the horizon…they’re hardly the visual pollution of] big barges…Wind turbine technician is one of the fastest-growing occupations in the United States…” click here for more

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