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The U.S. government chose winning bids Tuesday to develop wind power off New England in the first commercial sale for floating offshore wind on the Atlantic coast. The Bureau of Ocean Energy ...
The following table lists offshore wind farm areas (by nameplate capacity) that are in various states development for the Outer Continental Shelf in U.S. territorial waters of the East Coast of the United States, [31] where a Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) wind energy area lease has been secured [32] [33] and have gained at least some ...
The Maryland Offshore Wind Project could see 114 wind turbines, four offshore substation platforms and up to four offshore export cable corridors built about 11.5 miles (18.5 kilometers) off that ...
The first offshore wind farm, Block Island Wind Farm, began operation in 2016. [2] The first commercial-scale (greater than 100 MW) offshore wind farm, South Fork Wind in federal waters offshore Rhode Island, was fully commissioned on March 14, 2024. As of May 31, 2024, total offshore wind power was 174 MW. [3]
It also lists the largest offshore wind farms currently under construction, the largest proposed offshore wind farms, and offshore wind farms with notability other than size. As of 2022, Hornsea 2 in the United Kingdom is the largest offshore wind farm in the world at 1,386 MW .
Maryland's first offshore wind project is expected to start operations in 2025-2026. The 270-MW project is owned by US Wind, a subsidiary of Italy's Renexia SpA.
This information is gathered from multiple Internet sources, [1] [2] and primarily the 4C Offshore's Global Offshore Wind Farm Map and Database and is current up to July 2015. The name of the Wind Farm is the name used by the Energy Company when referring to the Farm and is usually related to a shoal or the name of the nearest town on shore.
Terrestrial wind farms often reside on actual farmland or ranch land. Since offshore wind "farms" are rarely used for actual farming or ranching, an equivalent name is "offshore wind park" (although, strictly speaking, they aren't used for parking either).