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NREL Floats New Offshore Wind Cost Optimization Vision

The United States’ most plentiful offshore wind resource is found in waters so deep that floating platforms are needed to support the turbines—posing major challenges for offshore wind to deliver electricity at a commercial scale and competitive cost. In order for floating wind to become a viable marketplace technology, optimized designs, configurations, and operational practices need to be identified to achieve cost parity with fixed-bottom platform designs.

Facebook to Purchase Power from Apex’s 300 MW Lincoln Land Wind Project

Apex Clean Energy’s Lincoln Land Wind has executed a power purchase agreement with Facebook for approximately 170 MW of renewable power from the Illinois project. With this latest in a series of transactions, Facebook is now Apex’s largest corporate customer by megawatt. Lincoln Land Wind will help Facebook meet its goal of supporting its operations in the region with 100% renewable energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75%.

New American wind power total capacity over 2,500 MW finds new report

The American Wind Energy Association’s newly released Wind Powers America Second Quarter Report 2020 has found that new wind power has brought total American capacity to nearly 110,000 MW, despite challenges from COVID-19. The US wind industry installed over 2,500 MW of new wind power capacity in the second quarter of 2020, with many developers managing to get their projects over the finish line during the three-month period.