Offshore Wind: Prospects for Australia

摘要: Offshore wind energy is booming globally. The industry is rapidly scaling up across the UK, Europe and Asia-Pacific as costs have fallen and the size of turbines and projects has increased dramatically.Globally, 2030 targets for offshore wind total around 200 Gigawatts (GWs), including 40 GW in the UK and US, 60 GW in the EU, 12 GW in Korea and 10 GW in Japan (which has a target of 45 GW by 2040). For the International Energy Agency (IEA), offshore wind energy is now one of the ‘big three’in its energy scenarios–projected alongside on-shore wind and solar PV to be one of the bulk sources of electricity in the clean energy transition in coming decades. The UK Government project that by 2030, offshore wind will be costcompetitive with onshore wind. The scale of global development in offshore wind energy will translate into major employment growth by 2030.(see GWEC, 2020)