Press Release: 6/29/2026

URGENT: Tell the MA Senate to Stop Bailing Out Offshore Wind

Massachusetts families are already struggling with some of the highest energy bills in the nation.



Instead of changing course, Beacon Hill is preparing to double down.



Next week, the Massachusetts Senate is expected to debate S.3143, a sweeping energy bill that includes provisions designed to keep the Commonwealth's troubled offshore wind agenda alive by shifting more financial risk onto ratepayers.

 

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When offshore wind projects were first approved, developers agreed to fixed-price contracts and accepted the risks if construction costs increased. Now that many of those projects have become more expensive, lawmakers want to change the rules.



Under S. 3143, the state would:

• Allow offshore wind contracts to be renegotiated.

• Extend permits for delayed projects.

• Allow the Commonwealth to co-invest in offshore wind developments.

• Commit Massachusetts to procuring 10 gigawatts of offshore wind.



Every one of those changes moves more financial risk away from developers and onto Massachusetts families and businesses.



That raises a simple question:



If offshore wind only works with federal subsidies, state subsidies, contract renegotiations, permit extensions, and taxpayer co-investment, when do policymakers admit the economics simply don't work?



Instead of asking developers to absorb the risks they originally accepted, Beacon Hill is asking you to do it.



Massachusetts deserves an affordable and reliable energy policy. We should not be rewriting the rules every time an expensive, unreliable alternative energy project falls short of expectations.



The Senate could take up this legislation as soon as next week, and your voice matters.



Please take just a minute to contact your State Senator and urge them to oppose the offshore wind bailout provisions contained in S. 3143: https://www.votervoice.net/MASSFISCAL/campaigns/138360/respond



Any serious effort to reduce energy costs must address wasteful spending in the Mass Save program, begin unwinding the Commonwealth’s burdensome Net Zero mandates, and embrace affordable, reliable energy sources like natural gas and nuclear power instead of doubling down on the same policies that helped drive costs higher.



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Thank you for standing with us as we continue fighting for affordable, reliable energy and greater accountability on Beacon Hill.