Today’s Solutions: April 26, 2024

Offshore wind has a lot of things going for it. Whether it’s less intermittency, a lack of NIMBY neighbors, or the sheer room to scale, we have good reason to believe that it will play an increasingly important role in electricity production around the world. Until recently, however, there was one major drawback: price. Here too, however, there’s been progress. Just earlier this summer, for example, there was considerable excitement when DONG Energy delivered a…

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