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There have been significant issues building offshore wind farms because the speciality ships used to construct these behemoths are not built by US shipyards. Th

There have been significant issues building offshore wind farms because the speciality ships used to construct these behemoths are not built by US shipyards. There have been some discussions of sailing these vessels all the from from Europe and operating them out of ports in Canada to get around the Jones Act, but the inefficiencies are obvious. Perhaps democrats could be persuaded into abolishing this rule on the basis of furthering green energy efforts.

cr1895 4y ago
>There have been some discussions of sailing these vessels all the from from Europe and operating them out of ports in Canada to get around the Jones Act Not mere discussions. This has already happened (Dominion Coastal Virginia demo project) and will continue to happen. JA support is really bipartisan…some dems are fully on board with continuation and even further strengthening of the Jones Act.
maxwell 4y ago
For context, it looks like there are only 32 wind turbine installation vessels in the world as of early 2021, and the first Jones Act-compliant wind turbine installation vessel is currently being built: https://www.theverge.com/22296979/us-offshore-ships-wind-boom-installation-vessels https://www.theverge.com/22296979/us-offshore-ships-wind-boo... Instead of taking on national security + environmental pollution risks and further empowering foreign industry by repealing the Jones Act, we should invest in U.S. shipyards and continue to investigate assembling wind turbines at port and bringing out to sea mostly intact: https://crew.udel.edu/industrializing-offshore-wind-power-generation https://crew.udel.edu/industrializing-offshore-wind-power-ge...