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U.S. Offshore Wind: Politics Giveth, Taketh
« on: August 26, 2025, 09:11:26 am »
U.S. Offshore Wind: Politics Giveth, Taketh
By Allen Brooks -- August 25, 2025

Ed. Note: The government-enabled on-grid wind and solar industries are on the downside of a political business cycle. The lesson for sustainable entrepreneurship is to meet underlying consumer demand, not rely on special favor from temporary political majorities.

Last Friday, the Daily Caller News Foundation broke an exclusive story that the U.S. had ordered a halt to construction on the offshore Revolution Wind Farm project. The article, “Trump Admin Kills Massive Offshore Wind Project,” announced the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (Department of Interior.

Revolution Wind is a 704-megawatt (MW), 65-turbine wind project located 15 miles south of Rhode Island’s Point Judith port and 32 miles southwest of Martha’s Vineyard. The capacity has been contracted under 20-year power-purchase agreements to utilities in Massachusetts (304 MW) and Rhode Island (400 MW).

A second project (Revolution Wind 2) was rejected by Rhode Island Energy (PPL Corporation) and Rhode Island’s Public Utilities Commission and U.S. Department of Energy staff as too expensive.

The project is located on the federal lease area (OCS-A 0486), which developer Ørsted acquired when it purchased Deepwater Wind LLC, the developer of the Block Island Wind farm and holder of various offshore wind leases, in late 2018 for $510 million.

https://www.masterresource.org/offshore-windpower-issues/offshore-wind-politics/
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Re: U.S. Offshore Wind: Politics Giveth, Taketh
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2025, 10:02:18 am »
Because Revolution Wind and Vineyard Wind were in Federal waters, Biden ram-rodded them in without the same sufficient local, states, and environmental input that would be required if they were offshore natural gas or oil projects.

Also, utility rate payers had no say, either.

Biden shoved through offshore wind just as Obama shoved through the Affordable Care Act.

We've spent decades and billions restoring our offshore environments.  We're not going to throw that away for the Danish Offshore Wind Mafia's latest racket.
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Re: U.S. Offshore Wind: Politics Giveth, Taketh
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2025, 06:35:47 pm »
RFK JR lists off environmental harms that windmills are causing: "The blades are 350 feet long. One of these blades blew up on Nantucket last summer. The water was filled with shards of sharp glass. The fish leave the area. They've killed 160 whales in the last TWO YEARS."

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