The U.K. is home to a mature offshore wind sector that looks set to expand in the coming years, with authorities aiming for up to 50 GW of capacity by 2030.
The European Union, which the U.K. left in January 2020, has previously laid out a 300 GW target for offshore wind by the middle of this century.
Across the Atlantic, the U.S. has a long way to go to catch up with Europe. America’s first offshore wind facility, the 30 megawatt Block Island Wind Farm, only started commercial operations in late 2016.
Change is coming, however, and in Nov. 2021 ground was broken on a project dubbed the United States’ “first commercial-scale offshore wind farm.”
