Offshore wind farm proposed for Gulf of Mexico near Galveston could power 2.3 million homes

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Two proposed wind farms off the Texas and Louisiana coasts would join offshore oil drilling rigs in the gulf as the Biden administration tries to boost the country’s clean energy supply.

U.S. President Joe Biden holds up a wind turbine size comparison chart while attending a meeting with governors, labor leaders and private companies launching the Federal-State Offshore Wind Implementation Partnership at the White House on June 23., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.

“It’s exciting to see offshore wind in the Gulf getting closer to reality,” said Luke Metzger, executive director of Environment Texas, an environmental protection group. “With strong winds in the evenings when we need energy the most, offshore wind in the Gulf of Mexico would greatly complement Texas’ onshore renewable energy resources, help bolster our shaky electric grid and help our environment.

Offshore wind provides much steadier energy production than wind farms on land in Texas, Jones said. With the “extraordinary” growth of Texas’ population and economy, Jones said “we have to keep pace with that development.”“So having an additional resource that can provide generation to Texans to keep the lights on is a value to all of us,” Jones said.

“The commercial appetite is there — it really is about the regulatory hurdles that exist,” said Kenneth B. Medlock III, an energy expert at Rice University. “There’s a lot of interest, without a doubt. Companies are actively lobbying to try to get these projects done.”

 

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And what about hurricanes

Lest we forget Feb 2021

Those things leak oil all the time, won’t that oil sheen on the water look nice

Of course.. we already know the fans down around Corpus interfere with the cooling cycle, so lets take the fans offshore to further interfere with the weather.

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