Massachusetts legislators agreed to a compromise energy bill late Tuesday that would open the door to a doubling of the New England state's existing offshore wind target, if signed into law by Republican Governor Charlie Baker.
Passed amid a flurry of late-night lawmaking on Boston's Beacon Hill at the end of the year's legislative session, Bill H4857 tells the Department of Energy Resources to begin considering whether it makes sense to procure another 1,600MW of offshore wind by 2035, after the state's existing 1.6GW
