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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has introduced the supply of two extra draft Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) for offshore wind tasks for public evaluate and remark. The tasks, Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Wind (CVOW) undertaking and Ørsted and Eversource’s Sunrise Wind undertaking, if permitted, may present over 4,000 megawatts (MW) of offshore wind power capability. The tasks are the fourth and fifth tasks at this stage of regulatory evaluate by BOEM.
The proposed CVOW industrial undertaking offshore Virginia Beach may present as much as 3,000 MW of power, sufficient to energy no less than 1 million houses. The proposed Sunrise Wind undertaking offshore New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island may present as much as 1,034 MW of power, sufficient to energy no less than 350,000 houses.
COASTAL VIRGINIA OFFSHORE WIND
The CVOW draft EIS can be found on BOEM’s website, and the Notice of Availability for the draft EIS will publish within the Federal Register on Dec. 16, which is able to open a 60-day public remark interval that may finish on Feb. 14, 2023. The enter obtained through this course of will inform preparation of the ultimate EIS.
Dominion Energy submitted a Construction and Operation Plan (COP) for its proposal to develop a wind power undertaking that features as much as 205 wind turbine turbines (WTGs) and their related offshore and onshore export cables. The CVOW undertaking is positioned on the U.S. outer continental shelf (OCS) roughly 24 nautical miles (nm) east of Virginia Beach, Virginia.
SUNRISE WIND
The Sunrise Wind draft EIS can be found on BOEM’s website, and the Notice of Availability for the draft EIS will publish within the Federal Register on Dec. 16, which is able to open a 60-day public remark interval that ends on Feb. 14, 2023. The enter obtained through this course of will inform preparation of the ultimate EIS.
Sunrise Wind LLC submitted a COP for its proposal to develop a wind power facility that features as much as 94 WTGs and their related export cables. The WTGs and offshore substation can be roughly 16.4 nm south of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, roughly 26.5 nm east of Montauk, New York, and 14.5 nm from Block Island, Rhode Island. The onshore export cables, substation, and grid connection can be positioned in Holbrook, New York.
