BOEM said it will also continue to convene the Central Atlantic Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force to enhance collaboration and to explore and identify potential additional areas for future offshore wind leasing.
These intergovernmental efforts include the advancement of a December 2023 commitment and June 2024 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that outline joint work by the Biden-Harris administration and the State of Maryland to evaluate additional areas off Maryland’s shores that could become wind energy areas.
Since the start of the Biden-Harris administration, the Department has approved the nation’s first eight commercial-scale offshore wind projects in federal waters.
BOEM has held four offshore wind lease sales, including offshore New York, New Jersey, and the Carolinas, and the first-ever sales offshore the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico coasts. The Department recently announced a schedule of up to twelve additional lease sales through 2028.
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