Great Lakes Freshwater Symposium: Great Lakes Offshore Wind

Watch the recorded webinar here!

The five Great Lakes contain 20 percent of the planet’s freshwater. They also hold tremendous potential for producing wind energy.

This webinar highlighted the legal challenges and opportunities for offshore wind energy in the Great Lakes.

Cora Sutherland presented the Center for Water Policy’s legal research on Great Lakes offshore wind energy. Her talk, titled “Great Lakes Offshore Wind (GLOW): Legal design choices and research questions,” distinguishes the Great Lakes region from ocean waters in the United States, explores legal design and planning choices, and summarizes a recent NSF-funded research workshop on GLOW.

This event was part of a quarterly water symposium series sponsored by the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin, Great Lakes Higher Education Consortium and Council of the Great Lakes Region. These events seek to encourage and advance collaborations, share science across borders, encourage students in research and career opportunities and present research that is solving real-world problems.