On Feb. 23, 2022, BOEM held an offshore wind auction for six lease areas in the New York Bight. The lease sale drew competitive winning bids from six companies totaling approximately $4.37 billion. This is the Executive Lease for Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Bight, LLC.
US Wind has decided to utilize a metocean buoy and meteorological tower offshore Maryland. Accordingly, US Wind is submitting this SAP for the deployment, operation and decommissioning of a metocean buoy. Much of the information contained in the original SAP has been retained and updated where needed along with new information specific to the metocean buoy and its deployment and operation from 2016 up to 2021.
At this time, the Company proposes to develop approximately 40 percent of the Lease Area, an area located 12 in the northwest corner closest to shore (19,441 ha, referred to as the Wind Development Area). 13 Infrastructure in the Wind Development Area will include wind turbine generators (WTGs), inter-array 14 cables, and an electrical service platform (ESP). The Project will connect from the ESP through offshore 15 export cables (within a designated corridor) and onshore export cables to the new onshore substation in 16 Virginia Beach, Virginia, where the renewable electricity generated will be transmitted to the electric grid.
As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of deploying 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind by 2030, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced it has completed its environmental review of potential impacts from offshore wind energy leasing activities in the Humboldt Wind Energy Area (WEA), located 20 miles offshore northern California, and based on its analysis has issued a finding of no significant impact (FONSI).
Land-based and offshore wind are expected to be a cornerstone for achieving U.S. clean electricity generation objectives, including 100% clean electricity by 2035 and an 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind by 2030. Meeting these goals will require significant expansion of domestic supply chains and installation of unprecedented amounts of wind capacity. To meet this challenge, researchers compiled a report examining the U.S. land-based and offshore wind energy supply chain, including raw materials, processed materials, components, sub-components, and recycling.
The report “America’s Strategy to Secure the Supply Chain for a Robust Clean Energy Transition” lays out the challenges and opportunities faced by the United States in the energy supply chain as well as the federal government plans to address these challenges and opportunities. It is accompanied by several issue-specific deep dive assessments, including this one, in response to Executive Order 14017 “America’s Supply Chains,” which directs the Secretary of Energy to submit a report on supply chains for the energy sector industrial base. The Executive Order is helping the federal government to build more secure and diverse U.S. supply chains, including energy supply chains.
A petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3310) of Thomas A. Golden, Jr., and Patricia A. Haddad relative to making appropriations for the investment in and expansion of the offshore wind industry. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
On January 16, 2020, Deepwater Wind New England, LLC. submitted an application to BOEM to assign 13,700 acres of OCS-A 0486 to Deepwater Wind South Fork, LLC. BOEM approved the assignment on March 23, 2020. The lease area assigned to Deepwater Wind South Fork, LLC now carries the new lease number OCS-A 0517.
