A few months ago, the UK government awarded approximately 5.3 GW of new offshore wind capacity in the Contract for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round 6.
For US President-elect Donald Trump, this is not the first time fighting offshore wind projects in the UK. Around a decade ago, Donald Trump challenged the Aberdeen Bay offshore wind farm (also known as European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre) in courts saying the wind turbines in the bay would ruin the landscape and the view from his golf resort in Aberdeen.
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While several large offshore wind leases were awarded during the first presidential term of the incoming US president, Donald Trump has been known as a major supporter of oil & gas and, during the first mandate, approved the 2019-2024 National Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program that made more than 90 per cent of the US OCS available for oil and gas exploration and production.
At the time when the draft proposal was released (2017/2018), twelve of the 23 affected coastal states requested exclusion and expressed their opposition to any new oil & gas leasing.
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A few days ago, the US saw a permanent ban imposed on offshore drilling, encompassing 625 million acres of US OCS waters.
According to our sibling news site Offshore-Energy.biz , the ban covers all US Outer Continental Shelf areas off the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and additional portions of the Northern Bering Sea in Alaska, and is said to be hard to reverse as it needs to be changed in the US Congress in order for it to be revoked.