This has been a bad week for the Biden administration’s efforts to subsidize an entire US offshore wind industry into existence. It’s a week that began with hundreds of chunks of a mysterious hard, green material washing up on the beaches of Nantucket Island.
That was Monday. That afternoon, local officials, concerned that many of the chunks of debris contained sharp edges, had closed the beaches for safety reasons pending the completion of cleanup operations. By Tuesday night, the Federal Bureau of Environmental Safety announced it would shut down the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind project “until further notice” due to the safety hazards it presents to the public. Believe it or not, things only got worse from there for the development’s operators, Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.
