What's the latest on Offshore Wind Cost

Don't know the cost, but part of the decrease is that more servicing companies are entering the segment. Many are the ones that serviced off shore oil platforms.

 

are gas prices artificially cheap, or are all the costs included? and is fracking as environmentally significant as windmills?

 

ya, nailing down these costs are tricky, and i wonder if long term wind is the easiest to forecast

 

Once you get through the first hundred million spent over 10 years on the legal dealings with the NIMBYs who don’t want to look at them or the landing sites for the distribution system, it probably starts looking cheaper and easier.

 

Bisco got me to thinking again. There are many maps of onshore and offshore wind energy. Have not seen such for out-of-synch winds. Meaning which areas are windy when others are not? This would seem to be worth knowing as spinners cannot simply be put everywhere.

 

i was told i can't put one in my yard

 

even when i lived on the ocean, the wind was erratic, not sure it would have paid off

 

Oh, we made plenty of power from ours*, and our neighbors had them too.

But over the years they’ve all come down, the last one just a few weeks ago. Mostly noise & maintenance issues, though one neighbor did have a minor fire relating to a runaway unit. That put the scare on.

*relative to demand: it’s an offgrid vacation cottage that was planned and built for extremely meager energy needs.

 

From https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2018/Jan/IRENA_2017_Power_Costs_2018.pdf



Short answer is that offshore wind is generally more expensive than others, but not outrageously so.

Also, there seem to be quite a few articles quite bullish on offshore wind:
https://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/1525362/europes-offshore-wind-costs-falling-steeply
Offshore Wind Prices Have Fallen 75% Since 2014 – Here's How To De-Risk Projects Even Further | Utility Dive

It does appear that companies are starting to achieve economies of scale/cost reductions in offshore wind.

 

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From https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2018/Jan/IRENA_2017_Power_Costs_2018.pdf



Short answer is that offshore wind is generally more expensive than others, but not outrageously so.

Also, there seem to be quite a few articles quite bullish on offshore wind:
https://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/1525362/europes-offshore-wind-costs-falling-steeply
Offshore Wind Prices Have Fallen 75% Since 2014 – Here's How To De-Risk Projects Even Further | Utility Dive

 

Hey I'll like dupes. I'm easy.

 

Battery, offshore wind costs plummeting, report says - HoustonChronicle.com

Forget conspiracies, like texas virginia power is simply too cheap for off shore wind to make sense. If you think dominion is bad look at PG&E which has been causing forest fires. The electricity cost and management is much worse in the north east. Its the higher cost of other electricity that makes it make more sense there and Denmark/Germany etc. They are predicting in about a decade it will be economically viable in texas and that's when its likely good for your state as well. Offshore projects are expensive but a lot less than they used to be.

What would make sense today is much less expensive on shore wind from West Virginia coming in to power more of your grid. The trick is building the infrastructure to the potential wind farms. In texas that was easy because the grid was just in our state. For virginia and west virginia there is a lot of politics and lots of states to deal with.