Two Offshore Wind Projects Agree to End Leases, Invest in Fossil Fuels

The projects’ owners agree not to invest in any new U.S. offshore wind projects in the future.
Two Offshore Wind Projects Agree to End Leases, Invest in Fossil Fuels
Wind turbines generate power on a farm near Throckmorton, Texas, on Aug. 24, 2018. (Nick Oxford/Reuters)cha
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Two offshore wind developers have pulled plans to build offshore wind farms and will instead invest in domestic energy projects in an agreement announced by the U.S. Department of the Interior April 27.

Bluepoint Wind project, planned off the coast of New York, and Golden State Wind project, to be installed off the California coast, have ended their federal leases for projects that the Trump administration said would have been costly for taxpayers.

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