The report, done by a Navigant Consulting, characterizes the US industry as having made “incremental but notable progress” during the past year toward completion of its first commercial-scale projects.

It found there is significant potential to increase US electricity capacity and create jobs through the further development of the offshore wind industry.

Moving toward initial construction stages are Deepwater Wind’s 30MW Block Island project off Rhode Island’s coast in state waters and 468MW Cape Wind, in federal waters south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.