Construction will start soon in Scotland on the 588MW Beatrice Offshore Windfarm, enough to power 450,000 homes. When completed in 2019 there will be 88 turbines, producing close to 7MW each. Total cost will be $3.8 billion. Meanwhile, back in the U.S., we still have no grid-scale offshore wind, because NIMBYs, ponderous regulation and, I […]