Is Off-Shore Wind Dead? July 24, 2023

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Updates

July 25, 2023: hope springs eternal.

• link here;

Original Post

All of a sudden this has become a big story. Big article in Barron's this month about the demise of off-shore US wind projects due to inflation.

Off-shore wind:

Link here.

• dead?
• Spanish-based Iberdrola to abandon Massachusetts off-shore project.
  
• the US east coast elite can rest easy; off-shore projects delayed, deferred, defeated.
  
• let Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Oregon carry the load
• few Americans have a dog in this fight; most don't care;
• Texas: maybe a pleasant surprise for faux environmentalists.
  
• other links:
  
• 2023: Rhode Island's wind strategy is unraveling -- climate change goals now endangered.
• 2023: inflation, interest rates, whales -- why offshore wind projects are on the rocks.
• 2023: wind turbine costs.
• 2016: cost of wind farm.