The Biden administration announced a multi-pronged effort on Jan. 12 to stimulate clean energy construction in the U.S., including the formal launch in February of the administration’s first offshore wind lease auction—the largest done at one time in the U.S.
The new push also includes other changes to ease permitting, build renewables projects on public lands and modernize the nation’s aging electrical grid.
Federal officials said the actions would accelerate U.S. market efforts to meet President Joe Biden’s goals to deploy 30 GW of clean energy by 2030, issue permits for 25 GW of new solar, wind and thermal projects on public lands by 2025 and reduce carbon emissions from electricity to zero by 2035.