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Anchors aweigh for the first commercial offshore wind farm in the US

30 years after Europe’s first offshore wind farm, the US is building its first industrial-scale offshore wind farm, 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. It will be home to the world’s most powerful wind turbines, and is expected to help the US transition to a new clean energy economy and reach the Biden administration’s goal of 30GW of wind power by 2030.

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