The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed its environmental review of the New England Wind project zone offshore Massachusetts (United States), with an estimated capacity of 2.6 GW, enough to power more than 900,000 homes. A Notice of Availability for the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the project will be published by BOEM on 1 March 2024 and the record of decision is expected to be published no earlier than April 2024.
The New England Wind project is being developed by Avangrid (the US affiliate of Iberdrola) and is located about 37 km south of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The project includes up to 129 wind turbine generators, with up to five offshore export cables that would transmit electricity to onshore transmission systems in the Town of Barnstable and Bristol County, Massachusetts.
At the federal level, the United States targets 30 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and 15 GW of floating offshore wind capacity by 2035 (only 42 MW of offshore wind were operational at the end of 2022).
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