Dive Summary:
- Deepwater Wind, who proposed the project to the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), estimates that the wind farm will generate over 100 GWh annually.
- Prior to reviewing Deepwater’s application for the project, BOEM had to determine whether any other developers were interested in using the area, which there weren’t.
- Most of the activities and permanent structures related to the wind farm will be in state waters and on state lands, meaning that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will tasked with analyzing potential environmental effects of the project.
From the article:
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has issued a decision of no competitive interest for the construction of a transmission system between the Rhode Island coastline and Block Island - an important step in evaluating the transmission project proposed by Deepwater Wind that would deliver power from its proposed five-turbine, 30 MW Block Island Wind Farm.
BOEM received an application from Deepwater Wind requesting a right-of-way grant for an eight-nautical-mile-long, 200-foot-wide corridor in federal waters on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to connect the proposed offshore wind farm - to be located in Rhode Island state waters approximately 2.5 nautical miles southeast of Block Island - to the Rhode Island mainland. ...
