Supply chain to support Biden’s offshore wind goals will cost at least $22.4B: report

The Hill ^ | 01-23-2023 | SHARON UDASIN

[ChicagoConservative27]

Fulfilling President Biden’s goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030 would require the rapid scale-up of a domestic supply chain and at least $22.4 billion in infrastructure investments, a new report has found.

The success of such a build-out would rely upon “resilient, sustainable and equitable manufacturing” of primarily U.S.-based facilities, ports and vessels, according to the report, published by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and other partners on Monday.

While the necessary investments would be substantial, individual states and companies could leverage existing manufacturing capabilities to create a new workforce and bring economic benefits nationwide, per the report, released with the Business Network for Offshore Wind.

“A manufacturing supply chain is already emerging in more than a dozen locations up and down the U.S. coast in support of the offshore wind industry,” Ross Gould, vice president for supply chain development and research at the nonprofit, said in a statement.

[ChicagoConservative27]

I am sure diaper brain is getting his cut..

[ConservativeInPA]

The success of such a build-out would rely upon “resilient, sustainable and equitable manufacturing” of primarily U.S.-based facilities, ports and vessels, according to the report, published by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and other partners on Monday.

Sustainable? Equitable? This is doomed to fail, after massive delays and 10 times as much money being spent as estimated.

Anyone that uses words like sustainable and equitable is a brainwashed moron and needs to be ridiculed and abused.

[volunbeer]

You are right about the buzzwords.

Just wait until you hear the actual price it will require to beef up our electrical distribution infrastructure for even half the country to drive electric vehicles.

OR

Consider how much more expensive lithium, cobalt, nickle, and other commodities will be to expand the battery market to accommodate such a shift. The Congo will be a toxic wasteland as will be the Lithium Triangle in South America.

I wonder what the “ESG” score is for that.

The only people who will benefit from all this “green energy” are the politicians and the people who pay them. The rest of the world will get hosed.

[Orosius]

And a couple thousand dead endangered whales and ruined fisheries later, the Biden crime syndicate and their cronies are that much richer.

[Vaquero]

Harness the big wind coming from the White House Also the VP is lnown to blow well too.

[Karliner]

I’m wondering just how bad this “idea” will be. Humboldt county is planning a wind farm about 20 miles offshore. With electrical lines and platform maintenance, windmils maintenance, unforeseen winds and pacific storms, possible terror attacks and even whale migration issues it’s probably never ever going to pay for itself

[PIF]

This will totally destroy the northeast coast commercial fisheries and likely charter and recreational fisheries as well. Note: windmills are not oil rigs.

[Paladin2]

Put them all just offshore of Ptown, Hyannis, Mahthah’s Vineyard and Nantucket, Mass.

[PIF]

With electrical lines and platform maintenance, windmils maintenance, unforeseen winds and pacific storms,

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Kiss your local fisheries goodbye. They aren’t telling you this so when there are no fish or shellfish, they can blame global warming, climate change, republicans, trump.

[Maine Mariner]

To build all those offshore wind platforms, we are going to need to make or buy a lot of steel. One key ingredient in making steel is coal! But we are going to shut down all the coal mines in the USA and Greta wants to shut them down all over the world. So no coal, no steel, and no offshore windmills.

[Tell It Right]

$22.4 billion ÷ 30 gigawatts = $746 per kilowatt (kw) for power that literally is provided less than half the time. And that's just the supply chain cost, not the cost to buy the land and labor, etc.

For perspective, in my last power bill the rate was 14.8 cents per kWh after adding riders and tax. Even at that rate I was complaining that it's 14.4% higher than the prior December (already too high for my tastes). And that power is dependable unlike the much much much more expensive wind "power" this is supposed to buy.

[brookwood]

Wind power delivers about 30 percent of its stated capacity, so it’s 22 billion for 10 gigawatts, before inevitable cost overruns. The lifespan of offshore wind turbines is 15-20 years, while the lifespan of a gas turbine power plant is about 30 years.

[Vaduz]

Check

[nascarnation]

I’m sure corrosion from salt water is a maintenance challenge.