Virginia by Morgan Sweeney | The Center Square Jul 2, 2024
Administrations lay plans to one-up America’s largest offshore wind farm Installation of the country’s largest offshore wind farm began in earnest just two months ago off the coast of Virginia, and the Biden administration announced Friday it will be auctioning another even bigger wind energy lease sale off the coast of the commonwealth.
Dominion Energy leased the approximately 113,000 acres that would become the site of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project in 2013. After installing two pilot turbines in 2020, the utility began the installation of the rest of its 176 turbines in May.
In August, two central Atlantic lease areas – one, more than 101,000 acres off the coast of Delaware and Maryland and the other, about 176,500 acres “35 nautical miles from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay” – will be auctioned.
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