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US Administration gives go ahead to latest offshore wind project
6/9/2023
News
The US Department of the Interior has approved the Revolution Wind project. Located 15 nautical miles south-east of Point Judith, Rhode Island, the new wind project will have capacity of about 704 MW of clean energy, capable of powering nearly 250,000 homes.
US President Joe Biden’s goal is to deploy 30 GW of offshore wind energy capacity by 2030. This is the Department’s fourth approval of an offshore wind energy project, joining the Vineyard Wind project offshore Massachusetts, the South Fork Wind project offshore Rhode Island and New York, and the Ocean Wind 1 project offshore New Jersey.
‘President Biden has set an ambitious goal of achieving 30 GW of offshore wind by 2030 – and I am more confident than ever that we will meet it. Together we are building an entirely new industry off the east and west and Gulf coasts,’ said US Secretary Deb Haaland.
The US offshore wind industry is ‘booming’, according to Assistant to the President and National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi, creating new opportunities up and down the supply chain. ‘Thanks to the Biden-Harris Administration’s historic climate and clean energy agenda, companies have quadrupled their US offshore wind investments to over $20bn.’
Approval of a fourth major offshore wind project is seen as a permitting milestone that will ‘help strengthen America’s energy security, make our power grid more reliable, lower our energy costs, and cut dangerous climate pollution’, Zaidi added.
Since President Biden took office, 18 offshore wind-related shipbuilding projects have been announced by companies as well as investments of nearly $3.5bn across 12 manufacturing facilities and 13 ports to strengthen the American offshore wind supply chain, representing thousands of new jobs.
With the latest milestone, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is on track to complete reviews of at least 16 offshore wind project plans by 2025, representing more than 27 GW of clean energy.
