When Mayflower Wind modified its identify to SouthCoast Wind, it didn’t change its emblem, seen right here on the battery hybrid CTV ordered by the corporate at Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has introduced the provision of its draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed SouthCoast Wind vitality challenge offshore Massachusetts.
Up till a name change on February 1, 2023, the challenge was known as Mayflower Wind. It is backed by Shell New Energies and Ocean Winds North America (a three way partnership between EDP Renewables and ENGIE).
SouthCoast Wind’s development and operation plan (COP) for the proposed wind vitality facility and related export cables on the Outer Continental Shelf offshore Massachusetts contains as much as 147 wind generators and two export cable corridors. One hall could be utilized by a number of export cables making landfall in Falmouth, Massachusetts, and the opposite hall could be utilized by a number of export cables making landfall in Somerset, Massachusetts. The lease space covers roughly 127,388 acres and is roughly 26 nautical miles (nm) south of Martha’s Vineyard and 20 nm south of Nantucket.
The SouthCoast Wind challenge is the seventh that’s at the moment within the draft EIS stage of assessment by BOEM. If authorized, this proposed 2,400-megawatt challenge may present energy for greater than 800,000 houses.
“BOEM continues to make significant progress toward achieving this administration’s vision for a clean energy future – one that will combat climate change, create jobs to support families, and ensure economic opportunities are accessible to all communities,” stated BOEM Director Elizabeth Klein. “In our review of offshore wind projects, we are committed to working collaboratively with our tribal, state, and local government partners as well as using the best available science to avoid or minimize conflict with existing users and marine life.”
The SouthCoast Wind draft EIS might be discovered on BOEM’s web site, and the discover of availability will publish within the Federal Register on Feb. 17, 2023, which is able to open a 45-day public remark interval that ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on Apr. 3, 2023. The enter obtained in the course of the remark interval will inform preparation of the ultimate EIS.
