New England’s Offshore Wind Solution
February 4, 2026
Key Findings
Energy from just two offshore wind projects would have reduced the risk of demand-driven power outages in New England by 55% during the winter of 2024-25.
When coupled with two proposed offshore wind generation projects, the region’s risk of demand-driven power outages drops by 75%.
If New England’s larger offshore wind fleet had been operating, renewables would have delivered over 2x the amount of energy than costly, polluting LNG imports.
A Union of Concerned Scientists analysis of winter 2024–2025 wind speed data shows that the energy delivered by just two offshore wind projects, totaling 1,500 megawatts (MW) of capacity, would have lowered the risk of power outages, based on a key reliability metric, by 55 percent over the course of the season. A larger fleet of 3,500 MW would have reduced the risk of outages by 75 percent. In either case, the scale of energy delivered by an offshore wind fleet would have increased the total winter energy supply from local renewable resources above the energy supply from imported liquified natural gas.
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