Floating Power Plants Are Opening a New Energy Frontier

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Floating power plants are presented as a way to expand clean energy generation as land-based solar and wind projects face space constraints and local opposition. The article frames offshore or water-based generation as a potential contribution to climate targets, while noting the need for a much larger renewable energy buildout.

The renewable revolution is running out of space. Utility-scale solar and wind farms take up enormous tracts of land and are facing increasing legal pushback from many of the communities where their development is planned. However, an enormous expansion of clean energy resources is still needed to stay on track with any feasible pathway toward keeping global warming within 1.5º Celsius of pre-industrial averages – the threshold to avoid the very worst impacts of climate change. Moreover, the expansion of renewable energies is becoming…