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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Emily Foxhall

The U.S. government hoped companies would want to build wind farms off the Texas coast. No one did.

Equipment, including stacks of large blades, destined for wind farms in the United States, arrive on the docks at the Port of Houston where they wait to be loaded onto trucks for delivery Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012 in Houston.
Blades destined for wind farms in the United States arrive on the docks at the Port of Houston, where they wait to be loaded onto trucks for delivery. (Credit: Michael Stravato for The Texas Tribune)

The federal government for the first time on Tuesday opened two areas in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast to build wind farms. Groups representing supply chain businesses hailed the chance for the new offshore leases to create more work. Clean power advocates cheered the opportunity for more renewable energy to be generated.

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