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Carolina Long Bay Offshore North Carolina. OCS-A 0545 OCS-A 0546 20 nmi southeast of Southport, North Carolina: NC: 2,250 2030 TotalEnergy Renewables USA Duke Energy [40] [41] [42] Empire Wind 1: Offshore New York OCS-A 0512 (Hudson North) [43] [44] 12 nmi south of Jones Beach, Long Island (NY) 79,350 acres (32,110 ha) NY
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.
The state has significant offshore wind resources. In 2015, small scale wind turbine projects were found throughout the state. In 2016, North Carolina's first large scale wind project, and the first in the southeastern U.S., was completed near Elizabeth City. [2] [3] In 2019, North Carolina had an installed wind capacity of 208 MW. [4]
Further complicating matters, a non-regulated subsidiary of Duke called Cinergy Corp. holds the offshore wind lease to a 55,154-acre area off Brunswick County that the company has said could power ...
Community Offshore Wind, a partnership between Essen, Germany-based RWE and New York-based National Grid, on Friday proposed a wind farm that would generate 2.8 gigawatts of electricity, or enough ...
A Trump-era moratorium paused new offshore leases — including wind — in the Atlantic off of North Carolina for 10 years.
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 .
LONG BRANCH — Federal regulators approved the construction and operation of two offshore wind facilities this week, projects that would power between 700,000 and 1 million New York homes and be ...