Offshore wind farms solve one of renewable energy’s biggest problems: unreliability. With wind almost always blowing on sea, there is no lack of power. But the technology is struggling with a bunch of other hurdles.

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Study: Levelized cost of renewable energy technologies: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/publications/studies/cost-of-electricity.html

Environmental impacts of offshore wind farms in the belgian north sea: https://odnature.naturalsciences.be/downloads/mumm/windfarms/winmon_report_2020_final.pdf

Offshore wind farms in Germany:
http://www.offshore-stiftung.de/status-quo-offshore-windenergie, https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/german-onshore-wind-power-output-business-and-perspectives

Global offshore wind capacity statistics:

China installed half of new global offshore wind capacity during 2020 in record year

Different offshore wind farm concepts:
https://acee.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/AndlingerDistillate_Article7.pdf

0:00 Intro
0:43 Advantages offshore wind energy
3:54 The grid problem
5:28 Expensive offshore wind
7:38 The space problem
9:03 Environmental concerns
12:18 Floating Windfarms
13:01 Conclusion

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