BOEM has announced the approval of the New England Wind offshore wind project (formerly Vineyard Wind South). The project is expected to generate up to 2,600 MW of electricity, enough to power more than 900,000 homes with clean renewable energy. The location is approximately 20 nautical mi. (nm) south of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and about 24 nm southwest of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Park City Wind LLC proposed a two-phase project plan comprising up to 129 wind turbine generators (WTGs), with up to five offshore export cables transmitting electricity to onshore transmission systems in the town of Barnstable and Bristol County, Massachusetts.

To date, the U.S. Department of the Interior has approved more than 10 GW of clean energy from offshore wind projects, enough to power nearly 4 million homes.

Learn more about the New England Wind project here.