The US Bureau of Ocean Vitality Administration (BOEM) has accomplished its environmental evaluation of the two.6 GW New England Wind offshore wind challenge, proposed to be in-built a lease space off Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York.
BOEM has now printed a closing environmental influence assertion (FEIS) for the challenge and expects to problem a document of determination (ROD) in April.
New England Wind is a phased challenge being developed by Park Metropolis Wind LLC, a challenge firm owned by Avangrid, the US arm of the Spanish renewable vitality developer Iberdrola, inside an space adjoining to Winery Wind 1, the primary large-scale offshore wind farm below development within the US.
Section 1 is the Park Metropolis Wind offshore wind farm, which can have an put in capability of not less than 804 MW. Section 2 is Commonwealth Wind, deliberate to have an put in capability of as much as 1,725 MW, based on the paperwork at BOEM.
The 2-phased challenge plan submitted for federal approval contains as much as 129 wind generators and as much as 5 offshore export cables that may transmit electrical energy to onshore transmission techniques within the City of Barnstable and Bristol County, Massachusetts.
Avangrid had already secured energy buy agreements (PPAs) for the 2 initiatives with the state electrical distribution corporations in Massachusetts (for Commonwealth Wind) and Connecticut (for Park Metropolis Wind). Nonetheless, the developer terminated each PPAs final yr, with plans to re-enter the initiatives into new state solicitations.
On the federal stage, the approval course of has been underway since 2021. The developer submitted a development and operation plan (COP) in July 2020 and, following preliminary evaluation, BOEM began the environmental evaluation in the summertime of 2021.
In December 2022, BOEM printed a draft EIS, initiating a 60-day public remark interval that closed in February 2023, via which the federal company acquired enter and suggestions that knowledgeable the now-issued closing EIS.
The 2 initiatives making up New England Wind have been being developed by Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Companions (CIP) till 2021, when the 2 companions restructured their 50/50 three way partnership in the USA and Avangrid Renewables took over the lease rights for the 2 offshore wind initiatives.
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