Wind farms in the open ocean could yield much more energy

New research uncovers potentials of offshore wind energy. Image source: Shutterstock (#91393268).

Research from the Carnegie Institution for Science has found that developing offshore wind engines in the open ocean could generate three to five times the energy wind farms on land can. The finding were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and hint toward an opportunity to advance wind energy considerably with these open ocean, deep water wind farms.

“We found that giant ocean-based wind farms are able to tap into the energy of the winds throughout much of the atmosphere, whereas wind farms onshore remain constrained by the near-surface wind resources,” researcher Anna Possner explained.

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