Workers pass the stern of the unfinished 260-foot-long Eco Edison ship in Terrebonne Parish, La., along the Houma Navigation Canal, Monday, April 3, 2023. The ship will serve as a floating housing for U.S. offshore wind technicians and a warehouse for their tools as they operate and maintain wind farms.(AP Photo/Ted Jackson)
HOUMA, La. (AP) — In Louisiana bayou country, where oil rig supply ships are as much a part of the waterside scenery as shrimp boats, a new kind of seagoing behemoth is taking shape that marks offshore wind power's growing presence in the energy seascape.