Under federal law, the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is responsible for conducting auctions to lease parcels of federal waters for offshore wind energy development.
On October 17, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced that BOEM will hold its next offshore wind auction in December. According to the Final Sale Notice published in the Federal Register on October 19, the agency will hold its Atlantic Wind Lease Sale 4A, covering 388,569 acres offshore Massachusetts. The sale will cover three separate leases, located within an area previously offered but unsold in 2015.
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| BOEM map of the proposed lease areas available through the December 2018 auction. |
Nineteen companies have qualified to participate as bidders in the lease sale:
- Avangrid Renewables, LLC
- Camellia Wind Energy LLC
- CI III Blue Cloud Wind Energy II LLC
- Cobra Industrial Services, Inc.
- Deepwater Wind New England, LLC
- East Wind LLC
- EC&R Development, LLC
- EDF Renewables Development, Inc.
- EDPR Offshore North America LLC
- Enbridge Holdings (Green Energy) L.L.C.
- Innogy US Renewable Projects LLC
- Mayflower Wind Energy LLC
- Northeast Wind Energy LLC
- Northland Power America Inc .
- PNE WIND USA, Inc.
- Equinor Wind US LLC
- Vineyard Wind LLC
- Wind Future LLC
- wpd offshore Alpha LLC
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