DOI announces wind energy lease sale offshore Carolinas
March 25, 2022
The Department of the Interior says that BOEM will hold a wind energy auction for two lease areas offshore the Carolinas on May 11.
Courtesy BOEM
Offshore staff
WASHINGTON, DC — The Department of the Interior (DOI) has announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed its environmental review and will hold a wind energy auction for two lease areas offshore the Carolinas on May 11.
The lease areas cover 110,091 acres in the Carolina Long Bay area that, if developed, could result in at least 1.3 gigawatts of offshore wind energy, which the DOI claims is enough to power nearly 500,000 homes.
The Carolina Long Bay offshore wind energy auction will allow offshore wind developers to bid on one or both of the lease areas within the Wilmington East Wind Energy Area, as described in BOEM’s Final Sale Notice, which is available in the Federal Register Reading Room. The two lease areas include similar acreage, distance to shore, and wind resource potential.
