Environmental review of central Atlantic offshore wind lease area completed
Analysis of proposed offshore wind lease area finds no significant environmental impacts
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced the results of its final Environmental Assessment (EA), which considers possible impacts from issuing leases for potential offshore wind development off the Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia coasts. The agency concluded that there would be no significant impacts from issuing leases for offshore wind in this area. BOEM plans to hold a lease sale in the Central Atlantic later this year.
“Offshore wind is poised to blow dirty energy off the mid-Atlantic’s power grid,” said said Johanna Neumann, Senior Director of the Campaign for 100% Renewable Energy at Environment America Research & Policy Center.
According to the data from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory compiled in the report Offshore Wind for America, Delaware, Virginia and Maryland all have the technical potential to produce more electricity from offshore wind than the state used in 2019.
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