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> To meet that demand and hit its climate goals, the report says the US has to add 27 gigawatts of offshore wind and 85 GW of land-based wind and solar each year between 2035 and 2050. That timeline might still seem far away, but it’s a big escalation of the Biden administration’s current goal of deploying 30 GW of offshore wind by 2030.

Isn’t this sentence backwards?

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Its hard to parse.. I think Biden planned to add less than 4 GW/year on average from 2021 - 2030 to get to 30 GW of offshore added. The 27 GW added per year being required from 2035 means a giant climb from 2031 to 2035.

Oh I see. That is a huge escalation then.

Yeah, when he is out of office and termed out...

Politicians shouldn't promise things they won't be around to deliver on.

The Biden administration has already enacted strong economic incentives to invest in this stuff. It’s happening now.

He should focus on what he is doing now rather than the pie in the sky futurity promise.

His incentives are active to various degrees between 2023 and 2032 mostly. So… yes, goals set for 2030 are exactly the timeframe his work addresses. It is what he is doing now.

His incentives are mostly active between 2020-2026*.

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