420 GW of offshore wind built in under 3 months

 I talked here about how fast a solar farm can be built.  This report shows that capacity in offshore wind can be installed just as rapidly.  When people start to panic, the rate at which we will transition our economies to zero carbon will be extremely rapid.  Assuming capacity factors of 30%, a country such as Australia could build effective renewables capacity (i.e., nameplate capacity  x capacity factor)  of two GW a year, just by building 3 wind farms and 3 solar farms a year of 400 MW nameplate capacity each.  This would replace Australia's coal fleet in 10 years.  Of course, we could build out wind and solar much faster if we put our minds to it.

50 of the 165 Siemens Gamesa 8.4 MW wind turbines have been installed at the 1,386 MW Hornsea Two, soon to be the largest offshore wind farm in the world. [In other words, 420 MW of capacity installed in less than 3 months] 

DEME Offshore’s jack-ups Sea Installer and Sea Challenger are transporting the turbines from Siemens Gamesa’s facilities in the Port of Hull and installing them at the site some 89 kilometres north-east of Grimsby, the UK.

Sea Challenger installed the first wind turbine at the site at the end of May.

Wind turbine foundation under construction at Hornsea