California’s offshore wind industry could be a casualty if President-elect Donald Trump makes good on his promise to sign an executive order to “end” the offshore wind industry California’s offshore wind industry could be a casualty if President-elect...
California’s offshore wind plans rely on a federal policy that offers billions of dollars in grants, subsidies and tax incentives. Floating offshore wind farms, which bob in the deep ocean as much as 20 miles from shore, are still not common in U.S. waters. But the...
A majority of onshore wind and solar farms have been built either with non-union workers or without collective bargaining agreements, except for in California where unions are more involved in the industry, according to North America’s Building Trades Unions. Orsted signed a project labor agreeme...
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Offshore Wind The offshore wind market is expanding rapidly, growing beyond its roots in Europe and becoming a significant factor in U.S. power generation. The sector is not only gaining momentum on the east and west coasts, including development of floating offshore wind in California, but ...
LaTourette said offshore wind development has absolutely nothing to do with the uptick in whale and dolphin deaths. “The culprit is a changing environment, and our inabilities societally to get it under control," he told the panel.
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California on Wednesday set ambitious new targets for offshore wind development, saying turbines along its storied coastline would power some 25 million homes by 2050. In a unanimous vote, the five-member California Energy Commission (CEC) adopted a goal of 3,000 to 5,000 megawatts (MW) ofof...
Based on existing activities and policy assumptions for future offshore wind development, two million acres of federal waters in the New York Bight, which includes parts of New Jersey, as well as California and the Carolinas, could be auctioned for commercial leases as early as this year as we...