The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will provoke an environmental evaluate of Vineyard Northeast’s proposed offshore wind vitality mission, positioned 29 miles offshore Nantucket, Massachusetts at its closest level.
BOEM estimates the proposed mission would generate as much as 2,600MW of electrical energy, sufficient to energy greater than 900,000 houses with clear renewable vitality.
The roughly 132,370-acre Lease Area is positioned some 29 miles (mi) from Nantucket and roughly 39 mi offshore Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
Highlights from Vineyard Northeast’s proposal embody the next:
• Installation of as much as 160 wind turbine turbines, as much as three electrical service platforms (ESPs), and one booster station in an adjoining lease space.
• Two offshore export cable corridors – one to Connecticut and one to Massachusetts – and related onshore transmission techniques.
Since the beginning of the Biden-Harris administration, the Department of the Interior has accredited the nation’s first six industrial scale offshore wind tasks, held 4 offshore wind lease auctions – together with a record-breaking sale offshore New York and the first-ever sale offshore the Pacific and Gulf Coasts, initiated environmental evaluate of 13 offshore wind tasks, and superior the method to discover further Wind Energy Areas in Oregon, Gulf of Maine and Central Atlantic. The Department has additionally taken steps to evolve its strategy to offshore wind to drive in direction of union-built tasks and a home based mostly provide chain.
