Interior Department holds offshore wind energy auction for Gulf

Washington DC (UPI) Aug 29, 2023

The Department of the Interior held the first offshore wind energy auction for the Gulf of Mexico region Tuesday, leading to one lease area receiving a high bid of $5.6 million. RWE Offshore US Gulf LLC won the Lake Charles Lease Area, which has the potential to generate about 1.24 gigawatts of offshore wind energy capacity. That has the potential of powering 435,400 homes with renewabl