{"id":2211287,"date":"2024-04-02T11:25:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-approves-major-wind-project-off-marthas-vineyard\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T11:25:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:25:36","slug":"biden-administration-approves-major-wind-project-off-marthas-vineyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-approves-major-wind-project-off-marthas-vineyard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biden administration has given the green light to a significant wind project off Martha\u2019s Vineyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-administration-approves-major-wind-project-off-marthas-vineyard%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2211287&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Interior Department\u2064 recently approved a commercial-scale offshore wind project in Massachusetts, moving the Biden administration closer to its 30 GW offshore wind target. The Avangrid-owned New England Wind Project, set to be constructed south of Martha\u2019s \u200bVineyard,\u2063 aims to power over \u2062900,000 homes. With this \u200bapproval, Biden has now \u2064greenlit\u2063 10 GW of\u200c offshore wind projects. \u2062The Interior Department&#8217;s recent approval\u200c of \u2063a commercial-scale offshore wind project in Massachusetts brings\u200c the Biden administration closer to its 30 GW offshore wind goal. \u200dThe Avangrid-owned New England \u200cWind Project, located south of Martha\u2019s Vineyard, is expected \u200bto power more than 900,000 homes. \u200dThis \u2063approval signifies Biden&#8217;s endorsement of 10 GW of offshore wind projects.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/biden-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Biden administration\">Interior Department<\/a> announced the approval Tuesday of a new commercial-scale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/bidens-offshore-wind-goal-existential-threat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>offshore wind <\/a>project in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Massachusetts<\/a>, clearing the way for up to 2.6 gigawatts of offshore wind power to be added to the power grid and moving the Biden administration one-third of the way to its target of 30 GW for offshore wind.<\/p>\n<p>The Avangrid-owned New England Wind Project will be built roughly 20 miles south of Martha\u2019s Vineyard, Interior Department officials said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/pressreleases\/biden-harris-administration-approves-eighth-offshore-wind-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>statement<\/a> Tuesday. Once online, it is expected to generate enough wind power to supply more than 900,000 homes.<\/p>\n<p>The New England Wind Project is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/pressreleases\/biden-harris-administration-approves-eighth-offshore-wind-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>eighth commercial-scale <\/a>offshore wind project to be approved under President Joe Biden. Biden also pledged to approve 16 offshore wind projects by 2025 in an effort to deliver on its goals by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>With the approval of the New England Wind Project, Biden\u2019s total approved offshore wind capacity now stands at 10 GW, Interior officials said \u2014 enough wind energy to power nearly 4 million homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the approval of the New England Wind project, we have now approved more than 10 GW of offshore wind projects in under three years,\u201d Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Elizabeth Klein told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The project approval comes just days after administration officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/pressreleases\/biden-harris-administration-approves-seventh-offshore-wind-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>signed off<\/a> last week on another large-scale offshore wind project in the Northeast: Sunrise Wind, an Orsted-owned wind development expected to bring nearly 1 GW of wind power to supply residents in New York. <\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has overseen billions of dollars in federal funding for offshore wind, primarily via the Inflation Reduction Act, which allocated $369 billion for clean and renewable energy growth, including offshore wind. Last month, the administration also announced the expansion of certain tax credits for offshore wind under the legislation to allow more pathways for developers to qualify for subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>The new project approvals are a shot in the arm for the U.S. offshore wind industry, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/bidens-offshore-wind-goal-existential-threat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>struggled<\/a> with a string of setbacks in recent months, including poorly negotiated power purchase agreements, supply chain delays, and higher-than-expected materials costs. <\/p>\n<p>These headwinds forced some developers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2446909\/major-developer-halts-two-new-jersey-offshore-wind-projects-in-blow-to-biden-goals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>renegotiate or abandon<\/a> their stake in U.S. projects in recent months, threatening to put Biden\u2019s 30 GW target out of reach. <\/p>\n<p>Biden officials praised the offshore wind developments Tuesday as a major step forward for offshore wind, an industry that they said had been stalled for years under the Trump administration. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden-Harris administration has built an offshore wind industry from the ground up after years of delay from the previous administration,\u201d Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we celebrate the incredible progress being made toward achieving our goal of 30 GW of offshore wind energy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, the Interior Department approved a large-scale offshore wind project in Massachusetts, paving the way for 2.6 gigawatts of wind power to be integrated into the grid. This move brings the Biden administration closer to its 30 GW offshore wind goal, with the project being developed by Avangrid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2650,"featured_media":2211288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP23341776270725-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP23341776270725-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2211288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}