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Exactly one week after taking the oath of office, President Biden gave offshore wind energy a prominent place in his administration's strategies on energy and the environment. Amid a flurry of executive orders, Department of Interior officials put out their intention to accelerate offshore wind development: "The Department will immediately begin a review of processes and procedures to date as it reinvests in a rigorous renewable energy program." That Jan. 27 statement came two days after developers of the Vineyard Wind project off southern New England announced that it had approached the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) about resuming the permitting process for the 800-mega-watt turbine array. Then on Feb. 3, BOEM announced that it intended to resume the environmental review of Vineyard Wind's proposed offshore wind project. The developers, a joint venture between Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, had asked BOEM in late 2020 to temporarily withdraw their construction and operations plan so it could be updated for using the next generation of larger, more powerful 14-megawatt GE Haliade-X turbines. |