On the eve of President Joe Biden’s appearance on Nov. 1 at the COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, the U.S. Interior Dept. pushed the administration’s clean energy agenda forward, announcing on Oct. 29 new moves to propel commercial-scale offshore wind development in federal waters in three areas.
Interior will propose on Nov. 1 a lease sale of an estimated 200-sq-mile area of Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Wilmington, N.C.; seek industry interest in developing projects in up to 30 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico; and start its review of the 147-turbine Mayflower Wind project located south of Martha’s Vineyard. The department seeks public input on all three proposals.