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U.S. Offshore Wind Energy Development: Overview and Issues for the 118th Congress Updated September 13, 2023 Congressional Research Service R46970 SUMMARY R46970 U.S. Offshore Wind Energy Development: September 13, 2023 Overview and Issues for the 118th Congress Laura B. Comay Offshore wind continues to be of interest as a potentially significant renewable energy resource Specialist in Natural for the United States. Offshore wind power relies on turbines constructed in bodies of water, Resources Policy which use wind to generate electricity. According to some estimates, offshore regions of the contiguous United States and Hawaii have the net technical potential to generate more than Corrie E. Clark 13 million gigawatt hours per year of wind-based electricity—more than three times the amount Specialist in Energy Policy of electricity used annually in the United States in recent years—although these estimates do not take into account economic feasibility. The Biden Administration has announced a government- wide effort to deploy 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind energy by 2030 and a related goal to deploy 15 GW of installed floating offshore wind capacity by 2035. Thirty gigawatts would be equivalent to more than 2% of the U.S. utility-scale electricity generating capacity a