Recharge.
The role at BOEM, which will oversee the administration’s planned launch of US commercial-scale offshore wind on a robust growth path this decade, does not require confirmation by the US Senate.
Walter Cruickshank, present acting and deputy director of BOEM, will continue as deputy director, a position he has held since the agency was created in October 2011.
Lefton has served as first secretary for energy and the environment for New York state governor Andrew Cuomo since January 2019. Prior to that, she was deputy policy director for seven years at the New York chapter of the Nature Conservancy, a leading national environmental group.
Will 2021 be the year offshore wind power finally takes off?
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GREAT YARMOUTH, ENGLAND - JULY 19: The sun starts to rise behind Britain s largest offshore wind farm off the Great Yarmouth coastline on July 19, 2006 in Norfolk, England. The 30 turbines cost GBP75million and can generate enough power for 41,000 homes are seen by supporters as a clean and green way to generate electricity and a way of cutting down on harmful green house gas emmissions. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
Five lonely wind turbines spin in the state waters off the coast of Rhode Island. They’re the entirety of the Block Island Wind Farm, the United States’ only commercial-scale offshore wind facility currently in service, with an installed capacity of just 30 megawatts.
By contrast, on-land renewables are growing. We’ve installed more than 100 gigawatts of onshore wind capacity and 89 gigawatts of solar.
The Block Island project, completed in 2016, remains a monument to possibility, though. And it’s one that’s about to be realized.
Admittedly, no new commercial-scale offshore wind energy projects will break water this year in the United States. Despite that, the industry is poised for a big year. And we desperately need it, experts say.
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