Pursuits
A U.S. State Has Key to $10 Billion Offshore Wind Boom
- Massachusetts weighing 2,000 megawatt request by developers
- Legislation may spur Atlantic wind-farm building push
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Lawmakers in Massachusetts are drafting a bill that would jump-start the offshore wind industry in the U.S., helping trigger a $10 billion building spree off the Atlantic coast.
The energy bill may be introduced as early as this month and is expected to require utilities to purchase power from offshore wind farms, according to Representative Thomas Golden, one of the Democrats who control the state legislature.