Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 14:18:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Offshore Wind Now Competitive with Gas and Nuclear https://www.greenoptimistic.com/offshore-wind-gas-nuclear/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/offshore-wind-gas-nuclear/#respond Tue, 07 Apr 2015 14:18:44 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=54162 Some reports say that offshore wind is crazy expensive.  In fact, an economist from Oxford University, Dieter Helm, was quoted in the Economist back in 2014 as saying that offshore wind is “among the most expensive ways of marginally reducing carbon emissions known to man”. That is probably old news, though, just like the Dutch […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/offshore-wind-gas-nuclear/feed/ 0 54162 Japan Plans World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm https://www.greenoptimistic.com/japan-offshore-wind-farm-20130121/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/japan-offshore-wind-farm-20130121/#respond Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:04:51 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=31762 It is almost two years since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown in 2011, and after all but reducing its  dependence on nuclear power (only two out of 54 reactors are still online), Japan has declared its intention to focus on renewable energy by building the biggest offshore wind farm in the world. The wind farm […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/japan-offshore-wind-farm-20130121/feed/ 0 31762 1,200MW Offshore Wind Farm Possibly World’s biggest https://www.greenoptimistic.com/east-anglia-one-offshore-wind-farm-20121221/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/east-anglia-one-offshore-wind-farm-20121221/#comments Fri, 21 Dec 2012 07:53:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=30174 If the recent submission of plans is accepted and construction is finished, the East Anglia Offshore Wind (EAOW) could turn out to be the biggest offshore wind farm in the world. Just a few days ago, the plans were submitted to the National Infrastructure Directorate for review. If the farm gets sufficient wind to rotate […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/east-anglia-one-offshore-wind-farm-20121221/feed/ 1 30174 World's Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Starts Generating Energy For Kent County, UK https://www.greenoptimistic.com/uk-biggest-offshore-wind-farm-20100923/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/uk-biggest-offshore-wind-farm-20100923/#respond Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:09:34 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=10631 Starting today, UK will have the world's biggest offshore wind farm of Thanet in Kent that will generate clean electricity for about 240,000 urban homes. If the wind farm runs at full capacity, it will be able to power half the county of Kent.

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