Stanford University energy research finds an answer blowing in the wind

New research from the Atmosphere/Energy Program at Stanford University delivers the first-ever quantitative analysis of  the offshore wind energy resource from Virginia to Maine. The Stanford researchers conclude that roughly one-third (34%)  of the United States carbon free electricity demand (from Florida to Maine) can be technically provided with interconnected offshore wind farms along the East Coast.  Moreover, the research concluded that hundreds of gigawatts of high-voltage direct current (HVDC) can be transmitted through the proposed Atlantic Wind Connection seabed transmission line from New York to Virginia.

The research team inserted 140,000 wind turbines (5 megawatts each) into their computer model along the Eastern Seaboard with many of the turbines installed so far offshore that they would not be seen from land.  In the long term, the research demonstrates that the deliberate shift to renewable energy including wind would offset pollution and wean our energy policy off dirty, dangerous and expensive power and move it into the carbon-free nuclear-free 21st Century.