[mrguyorama]

There are mild externalities assumed and feared about offshore wind, despite it being pretty good in a multitude of ways. States are playing a dumb game, because we would be better off if there was lots of offshore wind, but each state individually is better off having offshore wind SOMEWHERE ELSE.

For example, here in maine, our premier engineering school has spent two decades now being a premier wind energy investment and research institution, and we have minted hundreds and hundreds of trained people into the field, yet our Democrat governor still decided to sign a bill that bans offshore wind, something that Orono has explicitly invested into for years.

Our state desperately needs new generation to bring power costs down, but there's no real incentive for anyone to do so (why build new supply to bring down your own revenue?) and apparently the state government has zero interest to help itself there.