America’s Offshore Wind Industry Is Growing Despite Trump’s Crackdown

The United States was slow to embrace offshore wind, with its first small-scale commercial wind farm coming online in 2016. It would take another eight years before the country launched its first utility-scale offshore wind project in 2024. While many other countries around the globe were rapidly developing offshore wind projects as part of energy diversification strategies, the United States mainly pursued solar photovoltaics and onshore wind projects. The United States has significant potential to develop its offshore wind capacity, but…