Earlier this month, the government gave the go-ahead for New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm to begin construction.
FILE - Three wind turbines stand in the water off Block Island, R.I, the nation's first offshore wind farm, Aug. 15, 2016. NEW ORLEANS — The first auction of offshore leases for wind power development in the Gulf of Mexico will take place Aug. 29 for tracts off the Louisiana and Texas coasts, the Biden administration announced Thursday.
The Department of the Interior said the lease sale will involve more than 300,000 acres . That includes a 102,480-acre area off the southwest Louisiana coast, and areas covering 102,480 acres and 96,786 acres off Galveston, Texas. Plans for the sale come as wind energy projects are already taking shape in the Northeast. Earlier this month, the governmentfor New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm to begin construction. That followed approval of projects now under construction in the northeast, one off Massachusetts and the other off New York and Rhode Island.
“We’re going to the Gulf,” President Joe Biden said Thursday in Philadelphia. He was there to tour the , where there was a steel-cutting ceremony for the Acadia, a vessel that will help to build offshore wind farms.
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