offshore wind, Tag

Word has it that the Feds told the developers to take the deal or they would simply cancel the leases, letting the developers sue to try to get their money back, someday...

Lawsuit seeks to compel NOAA to act on a year-old petition to designate the whale’s migration path a “critical habitat” to ensure its survival.

“Congress now has an opportunity—and an obligation—to correct this flawed process by requiring rigorous, upfront, full-footprint review of radar impacts on air safety and national security before any further offshore...

This gives the lie to the “nine times cheaper than gas” claim, which I have seen some people still claim.

The Department of Energy in a 2024 report stated that a radar’s threshold for false alarm detection can be increased to reduce some clutter, but an increased detection threshold could cause the radar to “miss actual targets.”

They presume that a system as complex as the Atlantic continental shelf will behave according to their intentions rather than according to its physics.

What this $10 billion battle with the Trump administration means for Orsted’s Danish government owner remains to be seen.

Save LBI will continue advocating for a full rescission of unlawful approvals, protection of the right whale’s migration, and an overhaul of BOEM and NMFS’s offshore wind permitting practices.

The DOT made the right call in ending these wind turbine subsidies and redirecting the money to where it’s really needed.

Three environmental groups have formally petitioned NOAA to revoke its prior marine mammal harassment authorizations citing new science that harassment can be deadly...

The Aussie Government is worried it might have to pay for Australia's own commercially unviable renewable projects, after President Trump pulled US support.

When demand ramps up, natural gas ramps up to meet the demand. When demand "really" ramps up, New England fires up its only coal-fired power plant and both regions fire up their petroleum-fired power plants. Neither ISO-NE...

Prioritizing these low-return investments while starving high-EROI energy sources will only drive costs higher for taxpayers, slow economic growth, and compromise grid reliability...

The offshore wind industry is floundering as President Donald Trump reverses Biden-era policies designed to boost the industrialization of America’s oceans.

“The law remains clear: the Department of the Interior must ensure that offshore projects prevent unreasonable interference before approval — not simply allow harm and hope payouts will quiet objections.”