The offshore wind industry is facing considerable logistical challenges that could severely diminish the technology’s ability to meet the green energy goals that the Biden administration has established, E&E News reported.
Offshore wind developers, many of which have struggled financially in recent months, are dealing with logistical and infrastructure inadequacies that are threatening to compound the inflationary pressures, supply chain backups and diminished opportunities to refinance that are dogging the industry, according to E&E News. Most of the logistical problems are related to the size of the enormous turbines and blades that developers are looking to use in their developments, which in many cases are too large for existing tugboats, barges, testing facilities and some existing hardware to accommodate.