What was once the world’s largest steel mill is about to become Maryland’s first permanent offshore wind turbine factory.
From world’s largest steel mill to offshore wind
This week, the US Department of Transportation Maritime Administration awarded $47.4 million to the new factory, called Sparrows Point Steel.
Six Maryland lawmakers (all Democrats) issued a joint statement about the award:
Through both the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, we’re bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US and back to Maryland, and this investment will help make Baltimore a competitive manufacturing hub for offshore wind and a premier destination for clean energy growth.
Sparrows Point Steel is on the site, near the Port of Baltimore, of what used to be Bethlehem Steel, which was founded in 1887 and became the world’s largest steel producer in the 1950s, with 30,000 workers. However, the collapse of the US steel industry forced the mill into bankruptcy, and it closed permanently in 2012 and was abandoned.
The project has been put on hold due to N.J. cancelling their offshore wind farms and Maryland still in litigation about windmills off the coast of Ocean City.
As the wind turbine industry goes down in flames, Less Moore will be sure to make MD #1!
and the taxpayer will be screwed with the bill for this dumb ass’s decisions!