Five Coastal Regions Explored for U.S. Offshore Wind Development

Offshore wind development could spread from the Atlantic coast to the Great Lakes and the coasts of California and Hawaii as the U.S. becomes one of the world’s leading builders of offshore wind farms through 2030, analysts said Feb. 6.

“We’re looking at what we have to do to put offshore wind in all five regions of the U.S.—the Northeast, the Southeast, the Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific and the Great Lakes,” Walt Musial, manager of the offshore wind energy program at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, said during an American Council on Renewable Energy webinar on offshore ...