The draft WEAs represented a subset of the original 3.9 million acres that the Department of the Interior identified for public comment in April 2022.
The US offshore wind target, set by the Biden-Harris administration in March 2021, is estimated to support around 77,000 direct and indirect jobs and trigger more than USD 12 billion (around EUR 10.2 billion) per year in capital investment in projects on both US coasts.
The 2030 target would also unlock a pathway to deploy 110 GW or more of offshore wind capacity by 2050, which would support a total of 135,000 jobs by that time.
As part of this ambition, BOEM has put the permitting process on a fast track and the country recently announced a new offshore wind lease sale auction.
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A couple of weeks ago, US President Joe Biden revealed that the first-ever Gulf of Mexico lease sale will take place on 29 August.
The offshore wind energy areas have the potential to power almost 1.3 million homes with clean energy.
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