Government Inches Closer to Approving Floating Wind Farms Off Oregon Coast

Published on August 17, 2024

The U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced on Aug. 13 that it has finalized an environmental assessment of the potential impacts of issuing leases to develop two floating offshore wind farms off the Oregon coast. The assessment concluded that issuing the leases for the wind farms “would have no significant impacts on people or the environment.” The two proposed Wind Energy Areas would cover roughly 195,000 acres and have the combined capacity to produce 2.4 gigawatts of energy—enough to power about 800,000 homes, according to BOEM. BOEM is preparing a final sale notice and inviting qualified participants to a lease auction of the proposed areas in mid-October....

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