The Biden Administration is considering a giant offshore wind project in the Gulf of Mexico, an area with plenty of potential and a long history of energy production. The Gulf of Mexico already has a workforce that is accustomed to working on rigs in the ocean, so it would be a slight evolution rather than creating an industry. One major advantage of offshore wind facilities is that they can be built on very large scales to directly offset the closures of major coal and nuclear plants. Back in January, the Biden administration outlined a range of clean energy initiatives , key among them plans to hold the largest-ever sale of offshore wind leases in U.S. history and accelerate the deployment of new power lines to transmit renewable electricity across the country. At the center of the offshore push was the sale of six commercial leases in the New York […]