The Biden administration has announced plans for the first sale of offshore wind power leases in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana and Texas coasts.
FILE - Three wind turbines stand in the water off Block Island, R.I, the nation's first offshore wind farm, Aug. 15, 2016. The first auction of offshore leases for wind power development in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana and Texas coasts will be held Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, the Biden administration announced Thursday, July 20. – The first auction of offshore leases for wind power development in the Gulf of Mexico will take place Aug.
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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