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Summary

Description	English: Area chart showing power generation capacity of offshore windfarms (incl. floating windfarms), compared to new land+offshore capacity that the International Energy Agency said would be needed annually from 2030-2050 to meet "Net Zero by 2050" Suggested caption: Offshore windfarms, including floating windfarms, provide a small but growing fraction of total windfarm power generation. Such power generation capacity must grow substantially to help meet the IEA's Net Zero by 2050 pathway. Source: Rosa-Aquino, Paola ( 29 August 2021 ). " Floating wind turbines could open up vast ocean tracts for renewable power ". The Guardian . Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20210830162300/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/29/floating-wind-turbines-ocean-renewable-power Data from the source: > Total offshore capacity as of 2021: 32,000 MW > New offshore capacity added in 2020: 6,000 MW > Total floating capacity in 2021: 80 MW > Aberdeen floating windfarm: 30 MW > IEA annual projection to meet Net Zero by 2050: 390,000 The square roots of these numbers (178.88, 77.45, 8.94, 5.47, and 624.50, respectively) are what are literally used as circle radii in the SVG code.
Date	30 August 2021
Source	Own work
Author	RCraig09

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