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Photo: courtesy Fred Olsen Windcarrier

U.S. leader: Fred Olsen Windcarrier’s Bold Tern (multiple) and crew transport vessel. know is the largest undeveloped wind Deepwater Wind’s South Fork, although bid of $9.1 million. Projects now tend to market in the world: at least ? ve U.S. Statoil now also has rights to areas acre- dwarf the pioneering ? ve-turbine, $350 coastal states have held successive, suc- age. Ship owners would be wise to get million Block Island project of 2014- cessful offshore lease sales for some of to know the unfamiliar company names 2016. the over 2,000,000 acres in offshore wind winning leases in New Jersey (offering concessions under auction. Populace over 345,000 acres), North Carolina

Aligning Fortunes

New York and Massachusetts (the latter (429,000 acres), Rhode Island (Deep- BOEM checks the legal, ? nancial and with mega-project bids due this Decem- water Wind) or Maryland, where U.S. technical wherewithal of offshore oper- ber 2017) are notable for total acreage Wind Inc. plans a 248 MW project for ators now deep in planning that’ll make offerings of at least 750,000 acres, ac- 2020 and Skipjack Offshore Energy them U.S. offshore grid owners. Statoil cording to numbers from the Depart- LLC’s a 120 MW windfarm due 2022. won the wind lease sale for 80,000 acres ment of the Interior and the Bureau of North Carolina in 2017 quali? ed nine offshore New York and plans a wind

Ocean Energy Management. New York companies to bid in its seventh offshore park of up to 600 MW in the New York in 2017 quali? ed 14 companies for its lease auction, and in March 2017 an Wind Energy Area, or WEA, 30 to 60 sixth lease sale, part of a commitment to auction for the Kitty Hawk Wind Energy miles offshore in water 65 to 130 feet 2.4 gigawatts of installed offshore wind Area, or WEA, for 122,405 acres went deep. “The U.S. is a key emerging mar- energy hoped for by 2030. The ? rst is to Avangrid Renewables with a winning ket for offshore wind — both bottom- www.marinetechnologynews.com

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