Rim Drive turbine is poised to push offshore wind to new limits

Rim Drive turbines on the St Johns River in Florida

Herbert Williams is not your typical wind industry entrepreneur.

The chief executive of Keuka Energy has an extensive background in marine construction and boat design, and spent two decades as a commercial fisherman in the treacherous Bering Sea off Alaska. He has, in addition, invented a tidal-energy machine and is working on energy-­storage ­solutions.

Williams smiles when asked if he is a civil engineer, naval architect or scientist. No university degrees, he says matter-of-factly. His start-up, based in this small eastern Florida city bordering the St Johns River, hopes to make waves in the offshore wind sector…

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