The six New York Bight offshore wind lease areas are located in federal waters off New York and New Jersey and cover over 488,000 acres. BOEM estimates that full development of the lease areas could generate up to 7 GW of offshore wind energy, enough to power up to two million homes.
The auction for the New York Bight acreage was held in February 2022 and brought in over USD 4.3 billion in winning bids for the rights to develop offshore wind farms – a record amount for any US offshore renewable or conventional energy lease sale.
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The winning bids were placed by Bight Wind Holdings (RWE Renewables and National Grid), Attentive Energy (TotalEnergies and Corio Generation), Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Bight (Shell and EDF Renewables), Invenergy Wind Offshore, OW Ocean Winds, and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP).
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