As part of the Biden administration’s efforts to combat climate change, on Jan. 12, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will hold a wind energy auction on Feb. 23 for 488,201 acres in the New York Bight, an area that encompasses two leases off Long Beach Island about 50 nautical miles from shore.
Together New York and New Jersey have set the nation’s largest regional offshore wind target of installing over 16 GW of offshore wind by 2035.
Offshore wind developers will be bidding on six lease areas – the most areas ever offered in a single auction – as…
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