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原文传递 Staying Power

题名：	Staying Power
正文语种：	eng
作者：	Jim Redden
摘要：	When you're the flashy new kid on the block, folks need time to warm up to determine if you're for real and plan to stay around for a while. That is precisely where the nascent U.S. offshore wind industry finds itself as it tries to establish an endurable infrastructure for churning out everything from 350-foot-long turbine blades and specialized vessels to the permanent magnets required to generate electricity. "Any investor wants ROI and wants to make sure when making a huge investment in a facility that there's a pipeline of jobs and that the projects are coming," said Karl Humber-son, director of offshore wind construction for Dominion Energy Inc., Richmond, Va., which hopes to have the nation's largest offshore wind farm in operation by 2026. "It's about the certainty that if you're going to invest in something that you're going to have the ability for it to live and keep growing." The Biden administration wants 30 gigawatts of offshore wind in the national electric grid by 2030. Meeting that lofty goal will mean 2,100 wind turbines, 6,800 miles of cable and up to 85 Jones Act-compliant installation and specialized support vessels will be needed, Jocelyn Braun- Saracino, offshore wind lead for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), said on May 5 at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston. With only seven turbines now operating in U.S. waters, the domestic supply chain has a long way to go to reach Biden's goal.
出版年：	2022
期刊名称：	Work Boat
卷：	79
期：	7
页码：	30-32,34,36