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The U.S. Interior Department has approved the country’s first large-scale offshore wind project Tuesday (May 11th 2021), which sets the stage for a major shift in the energy landscape leading into the global energy transition.
The $2.8 billion Vineyard Wind project, to be constructed just offshore from Massachusetts, will have a generation capacity of 800 MW, enough to power 400,000 homes on the East Coast United States which includes the world’s most powerful turbine with 13 MW capacity to generate 1.6m tons of reduction in carbon emissions per annum.
The Biden administration’s objective is to bring 30GW of offshore wind online by the year 2030.