Ibid.

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Record quarter for offshore wind applications.

Cancellations

August 7, 2026 · Ibid.

Editorial cartoon: at a Department of the Interior teller window stencilled OFFSHORE WIND CANCELLATIONS, Doug Burgum pushes a $1.2 BILLION cheque out to RWE chief Markus Krebber, who strides off with it; a queue of executives waits behind a rope, and at the front of the queue nearest the reader a sweating young man hurriedly pencils his first wind turbine onto a blank sheet.

German utility RWE agreed with the US Interior Department to abandon all its US offshore wind projects in exchange for a $1.2bn payout, relinquishing leases off California, Louisiana and in the New York Bight and redirecting funds into fossil projects including $900m for a Louisiana LNG export terminal. It is the third such buyout after TotalEnergies and Duke Energy, whose $129m Carolina Long Bay termination came last month. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum called the deal a voluntary investment and said Americans deserve an energy system not dependent on costly subsidies.