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Team Favorite: Massive Wind Turbines Are Rising From The Atlantic Ocean

Team Favorite: Massive Wind Turbines Are Rising From The Atlantic Ocean

FromBig Take


Team Favorite: Massive Wind Turbines Are Rising From The Atlantic Ocean

FromBig Take

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Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Nov 24, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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We’re taking a break today for the Thanksgiving holiday. Here’s a favorite episode from August that you might have missed. We’ll be back on Monday with a new episode. Have a great weekend. And thanks for listening!
America’s first major offshore wind farm in the Atlantic Ocean is now under construction 15 miles south of Nantucket, off the coast of Massachusetts. Once complete, the 800-megawatt project is expected to generate enough electricity to power 400,000 homes. But with inflation and rising interest rates stifling progress on some other wind projects, will the Biden administration reach its 2030 goal of generating 30 gigawatts of power from offshore turbines?
Bloomberg’s Will Wade went out to see the Massachusetts project, and he joins this episode to explain the promise–and the problems–of erecting wind power on such a large scale. And Nick Schulz, a commercial diver working on the project, describes what it's like to build a massive turbine installation in deep water.
Read more: Atlantic’s Biggest Offshore Wind Turbine to Rise Next Week in US
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Released:
Nov 24, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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Each weekday, The Big Take brings you one story—one big, important story. Host Wes Kosova talks to Bloomberg journalists around the world, experts and the people at the center of the news to help you understand what’s happening, what it means and why it matters. Money, politics, the economy and business, energy, the environment, technology—we cover it all on The Big Take.