Trump’s Policies Have US States Eyeing Offshore Wind Power From Canada and Elsewhere

This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Massachusetts is among the American states exploring sourcing electricity from planned offshore wind farms in Atlantic Canada, following the US market-stalling moratorium imposed on the industry by the Trump administration earlier this year. The state, home to the pioneering 800-megawatt Vineyard Wind 1 project brought online last year, is one of six in the Northeast aiming to shift to renewable energy-based power grids before 2040. But a representative from the Massachusetts energy department suggested they were being forced to rethink options for reaching a targeted 5,600 MW of offshore wind power this decade after Donald Trump—who has long been a vociferous opponent of “windmills”—made good on a threat to halt a number of multibillion-dollar projects on “Day One” of his second presidency. Maria Hardiman, spokesperson for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.