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Biden wants to move energy offshore, but choppy seas are ahead Source: By Joshua Partlow, Washington Post • Posted: Sunday, May 9, 2021
To fight climate change, the administration supports a huge expansion in offshore wind farms by 2030
A liftboat at the Dorchester Shipyard in New Jersey on Friday. The ships help do drilling and cabling for offshore wind farms. (Hannah Yoon for The Washington Post)
DORCHESTER, N.J. In his three decades servicing oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, boat captain Keith Piper rode out all manner of storms and gales. Still, he had never faced the elements that tested him last winter at a wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island. Subzero temperatures. Snow. A nor’easter blowing 70 miles per hour. Coffee
Up and down the East Coast, developers and government agencies are preparing for the massively complex and costly challenge of placing thousands of wind