U.S. to Award $169 Million to Seven Offshore Wind Projects
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The U.S. Department of Energy will award as much as $169 million to seven proposed offshore wind projects in six states.
The wind farms, off the coasts of Maine, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Texas and Virginia, will receive as much as $4 million to complete engineering, site evaluation and other pre-construction work, the Energy Department said today in a statement. Three will be selected to get as much as $47 million to fund construction and operations by 2017, the agency said.