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It's not very windy in the South. Also, where are the offshore turbines mentioned?

Block Island..Here: https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uswtdb/viewer/#10.13/41.1282/-71.5...

Also Ørsted has been awarded the right to build New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm https://cleantechnica.com/2019/06/24/orsted-set-to-build-new...

Some more in the development pipeline:

Vineyard off of MA: https://www.iberdrola.com/about-us/lines-business/flagship-p...

Empire off of Long Island: https://www.equinor.com/en/what-we-do/empirewind.html

They're east of NY, at the tip of long island

did they get greenlight for deploying those? I remember a lot of local karens opposing it because of birds or something

Yes they did. It was a huge deal in RI. This farm powers Block Island and the excess goes to mainland RI. Previously BI was on Diesel fuel for power so there was a big motivation to get it done.

The full environmental impacts are not clear yet though, as there are consequences for fishing (a large industry in this region), especially with lobster and squid who are affected by the emf of the high voltage cables.

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