Sentence examples for offshore generating from inspiring English sources

The Cayman Islands has announced plans for the world's first commercial-scale oceanic thermal electricity-conversion plant to be built a mile offshore, generating power by exploiting the temperature gap between warm surface water and the cooler depths.Too many projects get stuck on the drawing-board, however.

But "we have zero offshore wind generating capacity to date — zero," he said.

The largest of the sites, Dogger Bank, is calculated to offer 9GW six times the worldwide installed base of offshore wind generating capacity in 2009.That base is growing fast, almost entirely in Europe.

A single offshore turbine generates roughly eight million kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, which, at Danish rates of energy use, is enough to satisfy the needs of some two thousand homes.

The report says the offshore sector generates almost £40bn a year, including £7bn in export earnings.

Offshore, squalls generated rough waves that briefly affected boating operations and oceanside homes.

When construction ends, London Array will be the world's largest offshore wind farm, generating more electricity than Denmark's Middelgrunden offshore wind farm, which is the largest offshore farm operational today.

"We should use that offshore capacity for generating electricity that's clean and secure".

The report found that the total practical offshore renewable energy generating capacity of Britain could be as much as 531 gigawatts.

This time around, even with the economy at the centre, offshoring has generated little heat so far.

Siemens is a world leader in providing equipment for big offshore wind parks for generating electricity.