UD professors
report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
that the U.S. has
fallen behind on offshore wind power.
(September 30, 2015) University
of Delaware faculty from the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE),
the College of Engineering and the Alfred Lerner School of Business and
Economics say that the U.S. has fallen behind in offshore wind power.
The UD professors, who are all affiliated with UD’s Center
for Carbon Free Power Integration (CCPI), reported their findings in an invited
paper that appeared this week in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences.
Titled “The Time Has Come for Offshore Wind Power in the
U.S.,” the paper asserts that while offshore wind turbines have been
successfully deployed in Europe since 1991, the U.S. is further from
commercial-scale offshore wind deployment today than it was in 2005.
“As we celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the U.S. Energy
Policy Act of 2005, it is disheartening to see that while land-based wind and
solar have reached new heights, U.S. offshore wind has remained a missed
opportunity,” says the paper’s lead author, Jeremy Firestone, who is a
professor in CEOE’s School of Marine Science and Policy and directs CCPI.