The
Deepwater
Offshore
Wind
Incentive
Act
would
provide
a
tax
incentive
of
3.04
cents
a
kilowatt
for
the
first
6,000
megawatts
of
US
deepwater
offshore
wind
production.
Co-sponsors
of
the
bill
are
Maine
Republican
Senators
Susan
Collins
and
Olympia
Snowe,
and
Democrats
Thomas
Carper
of
Delaware
and
Sherrod
Brown
of
Ohio.
The
tax
credit
would
be
in
place
until
2020
to
complement
the
US
Energy
Department’s
“20%
by
2030
Report”
that
outlined
key
policies,
including
long-term
tax
incentives,
to
produce
20%
of
American’s
electricity
from
wind
by
2030.
Snowe
says
that
placing
turbines
in…
