Offshore Wind Industry Is Caught In a Financial Hurricane

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : If sustainable energy is to sustain itself, it must learn to live with such vicissitudes.
59% : Being offshore does have some intrinsic advantages such as steadier winds, which mean more power from a given turbine, and the potential to offset variability from other forms of renewable power, such as addressing California's evening "net peak" (see this).
53% : Offshore wind is an outlier though because, unlike onshore wind and solar power, it was still at the high end of the cost curve before this financial shock.
48% : This isn't surprising given that, unlike traditional fuel-burning generation, the cost of generating renewable power skews heavily toward upfront construction.

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