Offshore Wind Farms Will Be A Long Wait For Virginia’s Coastline

Wind farms won’t be sprouting off Virginia’s coast anytime soon. Currently, there are no turbines making electricity anywhere in U.S. offshore waters. Media outlets report that getting the required permits to build towering wind turbines could take seven years alone. Federal energy officials say the earliest offshore commercial wind development could occur would likely be 2022; possibly years later before energy companies can develop wind farms in a vast track of ocean off Virginia’s coast.