While more and more offshore wind farms are being built in Europe and Asia, the U.S. have had a hard time with it so far. Concerns, which in Maine have even resulted in bans on the construction of offshore wind farms in federal waters, often focus on environmental protection and fishery. But now there is movement on the issue.
While various tenders have been held on the U.S. East Coast by the government in recent months to auction off the seabed - and thus the right to build a wind farm - there is still no other commercial-sized offshore wind farm off U.S. shores besides the 30 MW small Block Island offshore wind farm.
In addition to homegrown problems such as the Jones Act, which ensures that shipping ...