The US BOEM (Bureau of Ocean Energy Management) has received spontaneous lease requests from PNE Wind USA and Statoil Wind US for two previously unleased areas in an offshore wind energy area located close to Massachusetts (namely Lease area OCS-A 0502 and Lease area OCS-A 0503). PNE Wind USA also submitted a lease request for an offshore block located close to New York. These moves were unsolicited and the BOEM will decide later on if the application will move any further or not.
In September 2015, BOEM published a revised environmental assessment (EA) for commercial wind lease issuance and related activities within the three North Carolina Wind Energy Areas (WEA) (i.e. Kitty Hawk WEA, Wilmington East WEA, and Wilmington West WEA) offshore North Carolina. The Kitty Hawk lease sale will be the seventh competitive lease sale. So far, the six lease sales have generated over US$58m in high bids for more than one million acres in federal waters.
In January 2017, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and the BOEM shortlisted nine companies to take part to the commercial wind lease sale for 495 km² (122,405 acres) offshore Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (United States) that will be held on 16 March 2017. The BOEM shortlisted Avangrid Renewables, Enbridge, Shell, Northland Power America, Wind Future, Outer Banks Ocean Energy, PNE Wind USA, Statoil Wind US and wpd offshore Alpha.
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