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Experts Predict Accelerating Cost Reductions in Offshore Wind Study by wind energy researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UMass Amherst shows expected cost declines of 17%–35% by 2035 and 37%–49% by 2050 April 15, 2021 Figure 1. Estimates of future levelized costs in best-guess scenario. Figure 2. Estimated change in levelized costs across all three scenarios. Note: costs for floating offshore wind are compared to a 2019 baseline for fixed-bottom. Figure 3. Anticipated growth in onshore and offshore turbine size. AMHERST...

(International Energy Agency)  There are concurrent media campaigns and publications questioning the use of woody biomass for renewable energy production. Several of them misrepresent on-the-ground forestry practise and bioenergy systems, and associate the use of woody biomass for energy with overexploitation of forests, even permanent deforestation, and “the burning of trees”. In reality, forest bioenergy is an integral part of the forest sector which responds to bioenergy demand by devising forest management approaches and industrial processes to produce fuels, heat and electricity alo...