Texas Scorecard by Katy Drollinger October 18, 2022
The California plan is in addition to a proposal to build a 500,000 wind farm off the Galveston coast.
As states across the country struggle with failing power grids, the Biden administration is setting aside more than 900,000 acres to create more offshore wind farms and increase dependency on unreliable energy sources.
This week, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced a December 2022 sale to lease 373,268 acres off the California coast for wind farms, furthering President Joe Biden’s recent push to shift U.S. energy reliance away from oil and natural gas. Last year, Biden set a goal to produce 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030, which the administration claims could power 10 million homes––a mere 7 percent of U.S. households.
Last year, the Department of the Interior highlighted 30 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico as potential wind farm sites. After listening to public comments and reviewing possible impacts on marine life in the gulf, the department designated 734,688 coastal acres as a “Wind Energy Area” and ordered the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to lease the area to a wind energy company.
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