The U.S. Department of the Interior has approved the Sunrise Wind offshore wind project, 30 mi. east of Montauk Point, New York.

BOEM has held four offshore wind lease auctions, which have brought in almost $5.5 billion in high bids, including a record-breaking sale offshore New York and New Jersey and the first-ever sales offshore the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico coasts. The bureau has also advanced the process to explore additional opportunities for offshore wind energy development in the U.S., including in the Gulf of Maine and offshore Oregon and the U.S. Central Atlantic coast. The department has also taken steps toward union-built projects and a domestic-based supply chain. 

The Sunrise Wind project will have a total capacity of 924 MW of clean, renewable energy that BOEM estimates could power more than 320,000 homes per year. The project will support more than 800 direct jobs each year during the construction phase and about 300 jobs annually during the operations phase.

A map of the area can be found on BOEM’s website. 

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