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On U.S. East Coast, Has Offshore Wind’s Moment Finally Arrived?
After years of false starts, offshore wind is poised to take off along the East Coast. Commitments by states to purchase renewable power, support from the Biden administration, and billions in new investment are all contributing to the emergence of this fledgling industry.
About 60 miles east of New York’s Montauk Point, a 128,000-acre expanse of the Atlantic Ocean is expected to produce enough electricity to power around 850,000 homes when it’s populated with wind turbines and connected to the onshore grid in the next few years.
Fifteen miles off Atlantic City, New Jersey, another windy swath of ocean is due to start generating enough power for some 500,000 homes when a forest of 850-foot-high turbines start turning there in 2024.
28 January 2021 17:53 GMT Updated 1 February 2021 17:55 GMT
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday elevated climate change to an “essential element” of American foreign policy and national security, announcing three executive orders that would include putting a halt to new oil and gas drilling on public lands, federal agencies eliminating fossil fuel subsidies, and raising targets for the country’s fledgling offshore wind sector.
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“We’ve already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis. We can t wait any longer. We see it with our own eyes, we feel it, we know it in our bones and its time to act,” said Biden, who took office a week ago pledging to be the most aggressive president on climate action. “We know what to do. We just got to do it.”
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Vineyard Wind 1 (dark blue at center) would be the first offshore wind energy project among several planned on federal leases south of Martha s Vineyard and Nantucket. BOEM image.
A top New York energy and environment official who worked on her state’s drive for offshore wind energy, now director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, announced Wednesday the federal agency is resuming its environmental review of the Vineyard Wind project.
“Offshore wind has the potential to help our nation combat climate change, improve resilience through reliable power, and spur economic development to create good-paying jobs,” Amanda Lefton, formerly first assistant secretary for energy and environment in New York State. “BOEM is committed to conducting a robust and timely review of the proposed project.”