January 17, 2024--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--A final permit issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) (Washington, D.C.) to a large offshore windfarm off the Massachusetts coast may turn into another flashpoint between incoming President Donald Trump and outgoing President Joe Biden.

The DOI on December 20 issued a final permit for the 2,400-megawat (MW) SouthCoast offshore wind project. SouthCoast is being developed by Ocean Winds, a joint venture between a unit of EDP Group (Madrid, Spain) and ENGIE (Paris, France).