The world needs hundreds of thousands more offshore wind turbines – where will they all go?

We'll need tens of thousands of new turbines if net-zero targets are to be met. Shaun Wilkinson / Shutterstock

To reach net zero, the world may need as many 200,000 offshore wind turbines generating 2,000 gigawatts (GW) of energy.

To put this in context, by the end of 2022, 63 GW of offshore wind capacity had been installed worldwide. Within the next 28 years, the offshore wind energy sector needs to expand so that it is capable of producing 32 times its current energy capacity.