Dutch Offshore Wind Farm Doing Well

Shell reports that the first offshore wind farm in the Netherlands is performing well, and that it has had no lasting impacts on marine life. The release is particularly interesting because it briefly describes some of the measurement systems that have been used to better understand effects on seals, porpoises, birds, etc. The facility is called the Egmond aan Zee Offshore Wind Farm and its success is encouraging, because the world's offshore wind resource is very large and could supply a large percentage of the electricity used in heavily populated coastal areas.