Offshore Wind Farms: Adaptive Strategies to Achieve Sustainable Energy in the Face of Changing Climate

For the United States to adapt to and prepare for the impacts of changing climate, we need to promote more sustainable energy production. We are working to document the new regulatory framework governing the siting of off-shore wind farms in the Eastern United States (as a result of the 2005 National Energy Policy Act). The assumption is that state governments have a crucial role to play and that federal and state regulatory reviews will need to be coordinated, as will efforts to engage multiple stakeholders in implementing state-level sustainable energy policies.