The
US
Interior
Department
represents
federal
interests
in
the
consortium.
State
members
are
Delaware,
Maine,
Maryland,
Massachusetts,
New
Hampshire,
New
Jersey,
New
York,
North
Carolina,
Rhode
Island
and
Virginia.
Aside
from
Georgia,
Florida
and
South
Carolina
are
the
other
states
with
Atlantic
Ocean
coastline
that
are
not
consortium
members.
Georgia
and
South
Carolina
have
taken
steps
to
explore
feasibility
of
harvesting
their
offshore
wind
resource,
while
Florida’s
focus
has
been
on
biofuels
and
solar
power.
A
spokesman
for
Georgia
Governor
Sonny
Perdue
did
not
set
a
date
for
joining
the
consortium.…
