Offshore wind farms may very well be coming to almost each shoreline alongside the continental US. Inside Secretary Deb Haaland immediately announced plans to public sale off leases to builders for as much as seven new areas by 2025. That features waters within the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Maine, Central Atlantic, New York Bight (between Lengthy Island and New Jersey), and off the coasts of Oregon, California, and the Carolinas.
It’s a giant scaling up of offshore wind within the US, which lags far behind Europe in terms of deployment. The US’ first commercial-scale offshore wind farm simply received federal approval in May. Two current, smaller operations in US waters have a mixed capability of simply 42 megawatts. The Biden administration set a objective of pushing capability up…