Instead, those fixed-price contracts, especially for offshore projects, have frequently lost money.
The turbine represents just one third to one half of costs in offshore projects today, the rest comes from infrastructure, maintenance, and oversight.
The new structure includes an excess profit tax, and limits foreign participation to 50 percent in each offshore project with no guarantees of operatorship.
They say offshore projects of all kinds need a more systematic federal review process.
This means onshore wind farms receive the same funding as more expensive offshore projects.
Many developers are concerned that their offshore projects are no longer economic.
These services have also been expanded to cover a range of offshore and industrial projects.
We should spend money on offshore projects in the North Sea and the Baltic.
If we want fair competition, we have to use some public money to provide a level playing field for offshore projects.
Four days after the talks ended, the senior engineering manager for Hebron was off to another of the company's offshore projects in Australia.