They make it look so easy.

[Gilligan]

The European/Scandinavian companies have really gotten the installation of offshore wind turbines down to an art. Compare this to the many years it took to put up the lonely five, much smaller, turbines we have off our eastern coast.

Four turbines were loaded on to the vessel each time. The main components are a steel tower, three turbine blades and a nacelle which houses all generation components for the turbine. On average, it takes around 12 hours of precision working to install a turbine in full.

https://www.offshorewind.biz/2019/1...dium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_2019-10-04

Fortunately...those same companies are the ones winning all the bids for new offshore farms and setting up new operations over here.