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Whither Offshore Wind?

In November 2010, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar rolled out the Administration's "Smart from the Start" Program to develop wind off the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. Nearly two years later, on October 23, 2012, Interior awarded the first lease under the Program to NRG Bluewater Wind Delaware LLC for a lease off the coast of Delaware. Slow but steady progress is being made under the Program. (View PDF to read the rest of this article)

This article by Joan M. Bondareff, of counsel at Blank Rome, is one in a series of articles written for Blank Rome Maritime's quarterly Mainbrace newsletter. To view the other articles in the November 2012 edition of Mainbrace, please click here.