Permitting, supply chain issues flagged as US charts offshore wind expansion

摘要

Power industry observers were optimistic about prospects for the US tomeet its bold target of 30 GW of offshore wind by 2030 but permittinghurdles and potential supply chain obstacles were common threads ofconcern during Reuters’ US offshore wind conference May 26.Federal and state policy seem to have aligned on the importance ofoffshore wind to US energy and climate goals at a time that industry andpublic support are also favoring the technology, Xizhou Zhou, vicepresident and global managing director, global power and renewables, atIHS Markit, said. “But we also cannot ignore the challenges that lie ahead.”