The USA is planning to aggressively deploy Wind Farm Energy plants on 7 offshore points at its outer continental shelf by 2025. This announcement was made by Ms. Deb Haaland, who is the Interior Secretary of the division.
BOEM was founded in 2011 and comes under the US Department of the Interior. BOEM or the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is already working on the challenging tasks of feasibility and roadmap of these offshore developments like research, recreation, support for these offshore facilities operations, telecommunication facilities around these mega-development projects.
Offshore wind farms are the cleaner and healthier alternative to conventional more dangerous sources of non-renewable energy like fossil fuels, coal, oil, and natural gas which are the main sources of high emissions of carbon dioxide, and other environment-harming greenhouse gases or GHGs.
Wind farm installation around the coastal area of the United States of America is one of the several projects the Biden Government plans to invest in for the development of sustainable energy within the country. 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity production will be achieved as a result of this healthier transformation towards more sustainable energy resources.
These environmentally friendly renewable energy generation projects could help in the reduction of almost 78 million metric tons of dangerously high carbon, greenhouse gas emissions from entering into the atmosphere of the planet Earth.
The nexus of the US three major federal government executive bodies, the US Department of Interior, US Department of Energy along the Ministry of Commerce are collaborating in this project for achieving the goal of generation of 30 Gigawatts of sustainable and eco-friendly energy production by 2030. A total of 80,000 more jobs will be created as a result of the completion of such eco-friendly power generation projects throughout the USA. Almost 44,000 employment will be project-related and 33,000 workforces will be deployed to the companies and service providers associated with these megaprojects.
The seven specially designated areas across the US costliness are carefully selected for the installation of these big Wind Farms. These areas include the Gulf of Mexico, Oregon, California, Carolinas, Maine, New York, and areas in the mid-Atlantic ocean.
This project's primary goal is to bring at least 25 Gigawatts of energy from onshore renewable energy like solar power and wind power installations. Therefore the government is also allocating public lands to fulfill ever-increasing needs of environmental friendly and sustainable projects.
This project, upon its completion, will be able to generate 30 Gigawatts, or 30,000 megawatts of energy. This energy will be enough to cater to the energy needs of more than 10 million homes. The USA Government Biden administration is also reviewing 13 other green energy-related 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity production projects by 2025.
BOEM or Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will also engage all the stakeholders of the area and businesses including commercial fishing business groups and other environmental groups like non-governmental organizations like NGOs and various environmental conservation groups which are active in these coastal areas.
These groups have some issues with these projects. These groups think that installations of large wind farms are capable of killing thousands of birds. They also think that the project-related activities can potentially hinder the harvesting activities of several valuable kinds of seafood like fishes, scallops, and lobsters. The bigger turbine blades of these wind farms have the potential to kill the valuable insects, birds and bats more often.
BOEM is already in discussions with all of these stakeholders for mitigating the potential issues and worries of the respective groups concerned with the changes in the environment which will take place in the region upon the completion of these offshore wind farm installation projects and workings.
The federal government agency has already allocated $11.5 million for studying the effects of offshore wind farm installations on the environment and the lives of valuable insects, birds, bats, and marine mammals residing in this area. This research work will also study the effect of wind farms sites in the harvesting activities of commercial fish and defend marine foods like invertebrates in coastal areas.
The Departments of BOEM or Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will also spend $2 million on the visual survey and acoustic monitoring of seabirds and marine mammals of coastal areas selected for the installation of these wind farms.
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