New York Takes the Spotlight for US Offshore Wind at AWEA Offshore WindPower 2017

Renewable Energy World: On Tuesday October 24 at AWEA’s Offshore Wind Conference, Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul highlighted three reasons that she believes New York will become the global hub for offshore wind and Statoil announced that it has named its project Empire Wind.

Hochul said New York is committed to renewable energy and climate change.

“Despite what goes on in our nation’s capital, we are committed to the Paris climate agreement,” she said.

The lieutenant governor then highlighted some of New York’s history of tackling challenges that other people thought were crazy, such as the Erie Canal, which opened in 1825.

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