Brian Lerer on WNYC, now our climate story of the week, which we do every Tuesday on the show.

And today, an update on the state of offshore wind projects in New York State. In 2023, last year,

a number of renewable energy projects in New York State were killed off because of supply chain

issues and the rising costs of completing those projects. There were big hopes that 2024

would be different. And a major plan to build three wind farms near Albany

was central to those hopes. Now those projects are dead in the water and developers are casting

blame on General Electric for the setback. It's a big hit for New York's climate and energy goals

and for the nations by extension.

So we'll talk about what happened and we'll get some context now from Marie French,

who covers energy and the environment for Politico, New York.

Hi, Marie, thanks for doing this. Welcome back to WNYC.

Do we have Marie? Marie, can you hear me?

Yeah, I can hear you.

There we go. Now we have you.

And you write, in the rush to save New York's offshore industry from collapse last fall, Governor Kathy Hokel's administration bet big on

three new wind farms. A wind would be just the kind. The Biden administration is looking for,

pairing clean energy with union jobs and domestic manufacturing, unquote, from your article.

So what could have been? What was initially planned?

Yeah, so, Brian, these were sort of the reset projects that Governor Kathy Hokel announced in

October last year. These would be three, you know, more than 1,300 megawatt wind projects south of Long Island in the ocean,

paired with two huge factories for blades and nacelles,

which are the guts of wind turbines in the capital region near Albany.

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