The news last week was disappointing, but the offshore wind industry has shown their commitment to meeting the goals that New York State has set forth in the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. In March alone, we saw the first utility-scale offshore wind farm become fully operational (South Fork Wind Farm), NYSERDA completed its rapid rebid to award Empire Wind 1 and Sunrise Wind provisional contracts, Equinor signed a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) with the Building & Construction Trades Council of Great New York and Vicinity for the construction and revitalization of the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal, and Orsted received their Record of Determination from the BOEM.

Announced on March 29, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) released its Offshore Wind Strategy. This document offers a first-of-its-kind comprehensive summary of the Department’s efforts to meet President Biden’s offshore wind goals: the deployment of 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind energy by 2030, followed by a 110 GW goal by 2050.

Recent whale strandings and deaths off the Atlantic coast have led to questions about possible connections to offshore wind energy development. To address these concerns and dispel the profound misinformation in certain media outlets, the New York Offshore Wind Alliance (NYOWA), Citizen’s Campaign for the Environment (CCE) and the New York League of Conservation Voters (NYLCV) hosted Whale Tales and Whale Facts…

Embedded among the hundreds of policy proposals unveiled in her 2022 State of the State address, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that her administration would henceforth incentivize the conversion of the state’s aging fleet of fossil-fired generating plants to serve its push for clean and renewable resources.

The September 15 OSW Developers Meet and Greet Networking Forum, hosted more than 80 civic leaders on Long Island to hear from offshore wind project developers on their aspirations to meet New York’s nation-leading goal of 9,000 MW of offshore wind by 2030.