Ocean City officials, worried about the economic impact of the turbines, have threatened to sue
The federal government announced Thursday that it has given final approval to a proposed wind energy development off the coast of Maryland — a significant milestone in a process that has dragged on for more than a decade.
US Wind’s Maryland offshore wind project, as approved, is expected to generate over 2 gigawatts of renewable energy for the Delmarva Peninsula, enough to power more than 718,000 homes. The federal government has estimated that the development and construction phases of the project could support almost 2,680 jobs annually over the next seven years, which is when the wind installation is expected to be fully operational.
The lease area is approximately 8.7 nautical miles off the coast of Ocean City and approximately 9 nautical miles from Sussex County, Delaware, at its closest points to shore.
The Maryland Offshore Wind Project consists of three planned phases, which include the proposed installation of up to 114 wind turbine generators, up to four offshore substation platforms, one meteorological tower, and up to four offshore export cable corridors. Two phases, known as MarWin and Momentum Wind, already have offshore renewable energy certificates from the state.
The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has now approved 10 offshore leases in the Atlantic, and they are slowly coming online.
“Today’s milestone marks another giant leap toward our ambitious goal of unleashing 30 gigawatts of offshore energy by 2030,” Acting Interior Deputy Secretary Laura Daniel-Davis said in a statement. “Our work to approve the nation’s first 10 commercial-scale offshore wind projects is the result of the tenacious public servants at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to expedite the federal permitting process.”
We don’t want windmills Turd !!!!
appeal decision once Trump is in office. some common sense may prevail