It will take a monumental effort to reach those goals, with very little offshore wind capacity installed in the US today. “The good news about this offshore wind potential is it is spread out across the country from the East Coast, West Coast to the Gulf, as well as the Great Lakes region,” Nikit Abhyankar, senior scientist at the University of California, Berkeley Center for Environmental Public Policy, said in a press briefing last week. So we do believe the cost impact will not be a major factor going forward in the long run,” Abhyankar said in the press call