Paul Murphy, project director for Revolution Wind, discusses the assembly of offshore wind turbine components at the Port of Providence in June 2024. ‘When we started here, this was a parking lot,’ said Murphy, Ørsted’s project director for Revolution Wind, the first multistate offshore wind development in the nation. (Robert Zullo/ States Newsroom)
A coalition of trade union groups is calling on the states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut to sharply increase their goals for developing offshore wind power over the next 15 years to help meet climate goals and boost their economies.
The groups urged the states to set a target of generating 30 gigawatts of power from wind farms off the coast of southern New England by 2040, more than three times as much as their current combined target of 9 GW by 2030, and the same amount as the Biden administration’s national goal by that year. If achieved, the 30 GW target would meet all of the region’s retail electricity demand, and ensure that the current goal is achieved, the groups said in a new report that will be unveiled Tuesday morning at an event at IBEW Local 223 in Taunton, Massachusetts…