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Recent Developments in the Offshore Wind Energy Industry with Special Guest Jennifer Simon Lento of Vineyard Wind
Earth Day organizers consider wind power essential for reaching the Our Power, Our Planet goals. However, the future of American wind power is uncertain. Wind power accounts for around 10% of all power generated in the United...more
On January 20th, President Donald Trump launched his first attack on the wind industry by issuing a Presidential Memorandum, which temporarily bars future offshore wind leasing in federal waters and pauses issuance of any...more
Welcome to our 11th Issue of Currents 2024, our energy e-newsletter. This will be our last issue of 2024, and we want to sincerely thank you for reading Currents for the past eight years. Our goal is to relay top trending...more
Ten miles by water from our home on Cape Cod in Falmouth, Massachusetts, you would think that the future of offshore wind is now. New Bedford is the local home of Vineyard Wind, where massive components are loaded onto huge...more
Pennsylvania and RGGI – Decision and Resolution - On November 1, 2023, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, in a five-judge panel decision, issued a long-awaited ruling denying the authority of the executive branch,...more
On July 31, 2023, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced three final wind energy areas (WEAs) off the shores of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. The final WEAs have the potential to support 4-8 gigawatts of...more
The Opportunity and the Vision The wind atop U.S. waters presents an estimated potential resource of 4.2 terawatts, which is more than three times the total electricity-generating capacity operating in the United States in...more
Despite global economic headwinds, the US offshore wind industry has continued to slowly but steadily blossom, driven largely by enhanced vision and cooperation among federal government agencies under the Biden...more
The dust has settled on the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) first west coast auction for federal offshore wind lease areas. The California auction for the Morro Bay and Humboldt Call Areas brought an aggregate...more
The auction: First of its kind for five West Coast offshore lease areas - The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), completed its first west coast offshore wind lease auction on Wednesday.1 The auction covered...more
The offshore wind industry stands to gain additional momentum this summer as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) moves through Congress to its anticipated passage. The budget reconciliation package associated with the bill...more
There is increasing interest in integrating renewable energy sources into the power grid in the United States. In particular, interest in offshore wind development is growing rapidly. Shortly after taking office, President...more
Vents de Carême – Cajun French term for "strong spring winds, 'March winds'" (Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole and American Indian Communities (Univ. of Miss. Press, 2010, p. 646); literally...more
Another boost to the growing US offshore wind industry came on June 23, 2022, when the Biden-Harris administration and several cabinet secretaries announced new initiatives, including a partnership with 11 eastern states...more
The U.S. offshore wind market has surged in growth over the last few years, bolstered by the U.S government’s commitment in 2021 to increase offshore wind lease capacity as well as the Biden Administration’s declaration that...more
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released its final sale notice (FSN) for two lease areas totaling 110,091 acres in the Carolina Long Bay Area on March 25, 2022. The auction for these lease areas will be held...more
On March 25, 2022, the Biden-Harris administration issued a press release announcing a May 11, 2022, wind energy auction of 110,091 acres in the Carolina Long Bay offshore wind energy area off North Carolina’s coast. This...more
The new year has only just begun, and it is already shaping up to be another exciting one for the energy transition. In the US and elsewhere, governments, traditional and non-traditional energy corporations, and investors are...more
On October 28, 2021, in furtherance of the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of deploying 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind energy by 2030, the US Department of the Interior announced three major offshore wind development...more
On Friday February 25, the Biden administration continued its push to achieve 30 GW of offshore wind by 2030 when the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced three Call Areas for the development of floating...more
On October 13, 2021, during a speech at American Clean Power’s Offshore WINDPOWER Conference & Exhibition, US Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced a path forward for future offshore wind leasing along...more
In the first week of his presidency, President Biden, by Executive Order, set a goal of doubling offshore wind by 2030—an ambitious goal to help put the United States on a path to meet its commitments under the Paris Climate...more
Interest in US offshore wind development is at an all-time high, as the Biden Administration and lawmakers continue to create renewable energy project incentives and opportunities, shareholders demand action from companies to...more
Offshore Wind Goes West. On May 25, the Biden administration and the State of California announced an effort to develop areas off of the coast of California for up to 4.6 GW of offshore wind generation. While Northeastern...more
On June 4, 2021, days before the Biden Administration announced its intent to consider further expansion of offshore wind development in the Gulf of Mexico, nine governors issued a joint letter to US President Joe Biden’s...more