Re:Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power constr...
by cm2187 on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @04:06AM
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Electricity doesn't travel continents the way shipping containers do. So it's not like anyone wants to build a wind farm and wonders where in the world they are going to place it. Plus if you are a major single customer (eg datacenter, factory), you need reliable energy, so would be odd to build a wind farm. As far as I am aware wind farms only makes sense when you sell to the grid, and where there is an alternative on demand source of energy to take over the weeks there is no wind.
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Re:Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power constr...
by hvb2 on Friday February 06, 2026 @02:00AM
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> So it's not like anyone wants to build a wind farm and wonders where in the world they are going to place it.
No, but there's demand everywhere. So it's all down to how likely you are to get your money back?
And this is for adding power to the grid, if you have a major single customer you're already adding a ton of risk to your project... What if the datacenter is no longer needed after a few years or isn't completed ever?