First lease auction for Gulf of Mexico wind development set for late August
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The first auction of offshore wind energy leases in the Gulf of Mexico is set to take place on August 29, with over 300,000 acres of space up for grabs.
Plans for the sale come as wind energy projects are already taking shape in the Northeast. Earlier this month, the government gave the go-ahead for New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm to begin construction. That followed approval of projects now under construction in the northeast, one off Massachusetts and the other off New York and Rhode Island.
"We're going to the Gulf," President Joe Biden said Thursday in Philadelphia. He was there to tour the Philly Shipyard, where there was a steel-cutting ceremony for the Acadia, a vessel that will help to build offshore wind farms.
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