U.S. offshore wind industry will need networked ports

The New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal was designed to support wind energy development off Massachusetts, but at 21 acres may not be big enough alone for the projects that could be coming in the 2020s. Massachusetts Clean Energy Center photo

The U.S. East Coast is the world’s most promising market for offshore wind energy, but its ports all have limitations and will need to be used together by the new industry.

That was the assessment of experts at the International Partnering Forum 2019, a major wind energy conference hosted by the Business Network for Offshore Wind that attracted 1,400 people from offshore wind developers and associated industries to New York City last week.

“There’s not a Bremenhaven in the U.S.,” said Jay A....

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