All eyes in the US offshore sector are on Beacon Hill in Boston, where a committee of state legislators is hammering out the final details of a bill that the industry hopes will include a large carve-out for offshore wind and kick the American market into the next stage of its development.

While a number of northeast states may take steps to procure offshore wind over the next few years, Thomas Brøstrom, Dong’s general manager in North America, says Massachusetts’ energy bill will determine whether the Bay State project, described as “very comparable” to a Round 3 UK project, goes forward.

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