Oil industry expertise is helping to get offshore wind turbines in the water

Energy News Network: As Massachusetts, Rhode Island and other Northeast states seek to rapidly escalate offshore wind, it’s causing a ripple effect for logistics companies that are more accustomed to serving the oil and gas industry.

Energy expert Stephanie McClellan has spent the last four years at the University of Delaware guiding offshore wind from pie-in-the-sky blueprints to steel-in-the-water infrastructure that can deliver 8,000 megawatts of power to the Northeast by 2030.

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