A Fading Coal Town Banked on a Wind-Power Boom. Then Came Trump.
Story by David Uberti- WSJ
SOMERSET, Mass.—Pat Haddad fought for years to keep open a hulking coal-fired power plant in this bayside town of 18,000. After the facility closed in 2017, the locally dubbed “Queen of Coal” transformed into the “Witch of Wind.”
Staring down a hole in Somerset’s economy, the state representative and others bet big on the offshore wind industry as a way out. A planned factory on the site of the old plant would build underwater cables funneling energy onshore from skyscraper-size wind turbines off the coast. President Joe Biden even visited in 2022, casting the $200 million project as a symbol of America’s clean-energy revolution. Click here to read the full article as published by Wall Street Journal.
