A whole new industry: Researchers hone floating offshore wind turbines for launch

The federal government declared floating wind as the 5th US airshot. As a key technology to meet our climate goals as well as our energy goals as a country, we have over 50 people. Engineers working on floating wind in this laboratory. With 3% of the Gulf of main surface area, we can eat every home and drive every car in Maine. That's how big the resource is. Now let's move that to the country as a whole. Okay in the United States. There's enough offshore wind capacity within 50 miles of the US shores to power the country four times over. So it could be an important part of our future to combat climate change because of how big that resource is. The markers and everything on it, you have to prove it out. So that's what this facility is. It's a proving ground for new technology where you have 16 paddles on one end that can simulate the real ocean at scale and offshore And in the water depths, typically the winds are better, so you get higher capacity factors for floating typically.