The New England wind developers are funding free COVID-19 tests for fishermen in New Bedford. The initiative is being funded by the New England Wind Development Area (WDA), which consists of Vineyard Wind, Eversource/Ørsted, Mayflower Wind, and Equinor. Together, the … Continued
Governor Andrew Cuomo announced New York’s second offshore wind solicitation seeking up to 2,500 megawatts of projects. This is the largest in the nation’s history in addition to last year’s solicitation which resulted in nearly 1,700 megawatts awarded. This solicitation … Continued
New Jersey Board of Public Utilities will host a public meeting to discuss the draft New Jersey Offshore Wind Strategic Plan on Monday, August 3rd. The meeting will include a brief presentation by NJBPU Staff recapping the State of New … Continued
The CEQ published a final rule to update NEPA regulations. These changes are meant to reduce the number of projects that require federal review and narrow the scope of effects considered under those reviews.
The U.S. Department of Energy Efficiency and Renewable energy is hosting a webinar on Oceanographic High Frequency (HF) radar on July 27th, from 11 am – 1 pm as part of their radar interference mitigation series
The draft NJ Offshore Wind Strategic Plan was released July 13th and was prepared for the NJ Board of Public Utilities and the Interagency Taskforce on Offshore Wind. The document is available here
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will be presenting a webinar on the OceanReports tool on July 28 at 1:00 p.m. (Eastern Time). OceanReports is a publicly available web-based application that allows users to select an area anywhere in the … Continued
The Vineyard Wind Geophysical survey for 501S has been slightly delayed but is now scheduled to begin next week. More information can be found here: https://www.vineyardwind.com/mariners-updates/2020/7/6/offshore-mariner-update-no-26
The NYSERDA 2020 Geophysical Survey is scheduled to start within the week. An Offshore Fisheries Liaison and Protective Species Observers will be onboard during this survey. A Notice to Mariners can be found here: https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pdf/lnms/lnm05272020.pdf
Dominion Energy has completed the installation of the two turbine 12-megawatt CVOW pilot project. This is the second offshore wind farm in the United States and the first in federal waters.