The FSN for the Gulf of Maine auction, which will be published today (17 September), includes details regarding the auction, provisions, and conditions of the leases, the lease form, information on bidding credits, criteria for evaluating competing bids, award procedures, appeal procedures, and lease execution.
The document also includes several lease stipulations designed to promote the development of a domestic US supply chain for floating wind and advancing flexibility in transmission planning, minimising habitat impacts, and collecting data on protected marine mammals.
BOEM recently completed its final Environmental Assessment (EA) of the wind energy area in the Gulf of Maine. The FSN announcement comes after the US granted its first-ever floating offshore wind energy research lease in the Gulf of Maine just last month.
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