A rule of thumb in grid-scale projects is to allocate roughly 50% of your capital costs to _just maintenance_ over the lifetime of the thing you're deploying. Driving those costs down is really critical for affordable generation for any utility.
The fancier the installation, the more money needed by specialist humans to keep the thing running.
Offshore wind at scale is pretty affordable and less "fancy", relatively speaking.
The fancier the installation, the more money needed by specialist humans to keep the thing running.
Offshore wind at scale is pretty affordable and less "fancy", relatively speaking.