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To hear wind advocates tell it, prospects have never looked so good for the U.S. offshore wind industry. After its record-setting $4.37 billion sale of wind power leases in the New York Bight, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is setting its sights on offerings off the Carolinas and California. Russia's war in Ukraine has jolted global energy markets and given new urgency to the Biden administration's drive to develop renewable power sources. There is a push to develop domestic supply chains for U.S. offshore wind, build U.S-flag vessels to service turbine projects, and plan long term for regional power transmission lines to move their energy, Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said at the Business Network for Offshore Wind's International Partnering Forum in late April. |