Offshore Wind

Offshore Wind

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Corporate Taxes, Offshore Wind, Rural Hospitals

Episode: Corporate Taxes, Offshore Wind, Rural Hospitals

  • Apr 15, 2021 8:00 pm
  • 16:46 mins

The Biden administration recently announced an ambitious plan to build enough offshore wind farms to create a capacity of 30,000 megawatts. That would be enough to power 10 million homes. But why the new focus on the wind when it’s such an unreliable resource? Erin Baker is a professor of engineering and faculty director of the Energy Transition Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.