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A giant new offshore wind project is set to power 10 million US homes
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Author: Sean Fleming, Senior Writer, Formative Content
The US is set to power 10 million homes from a series of offshore wind farms.
Global offshore wind has grown from 2.2 gigawatts in 2016 to 6.1 gigawatts in 2020.
The UK has the most offshore wind capacity of any country.
But unless current plans are immediately accelerated, the world will miss the target of net zero by 2050, says the Global Wind Energy Council.
Thursday, 13 May 2021 New research from Oxford Brookes University has found that the vertical turbine design is far more efficient than traditional turbines in large scale wind farms, and when set in pairs the vertical turbines increase each other’s performance by up to 15%. Courtesy of Oxford Brookes University
A research team from the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (ECM) at Oxford Brookes led by Professor Iakovos Tzanakis conducted an in-depth study using more than 11,500 hours of computer simulation to show that wind farms can perform more efficiently by substituting the traditional propeller type Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines (HAWTs), for compact Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs).