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Six U.S. governors despatched a letter to President Biden final week urging extra assist for the offshore wind business, citing rising issues that surging prices imperil multibillion greenback tasks deliberate for northeast Atlantic states.
Hovering supplies prices, excessive rates of interest and provide chain snags have prompted undertaking builders together with Shell (SHEL), Orsted (OTCPK:DNNGY), Equinor (EQNR), BP (BP) and Avangrid (AGR) to cancel or renegotiate energy contracts for the primary commercial-scale U.S. wind farms, which had anticipated to start operations throughout the subsequent 5 years.
Corporations say they’re dedicated to the tasks, which have a mixed capability of greater than 6,000 MW, however the necessity to strike new contracts and safe specialised gear in demand all around the world threaten extreme delays.
“With out federal motion, offshore wind deployment within the U.S. is at severe danger of stalling as a result of states’ ratepayers could also be unable to soak up these important new prices alone,” the governors mentioned within the letter.
Failed tasks would threaten state deployment targets in addition to Biden’s bid to get 30 GW of offshore wind manufacturing capability put in by the top of the last decade – a pivotal a part of the president’s broader objective to decarbonize the U.S. economic system by 2050.
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