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Vineyard Wind appears to have regained its place at the front of the offshore wind project permitting line and is back on track to becoming the first utility-scale offshore wind farm in the United States.
Vineyard Wind appears to have regained its place at the front of the offshore wind project permitting line and is back on track to becoming the first utility-scale offshore wind farm in the United States.
The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced Wednesday afternoon that it will resume its review of the 800-megawatt wind farm planned for 15 miles south of Martha s Vineyard and will proceed with development of a Final Environmental Impact Statement, one of the last steps before the project can truly get underway. The decision could help ensure Massachusetts starts getting clean power from the project by the end of 2023.
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BOSTON - With a new federal administration in charge that s expected to be far more receptive to renewable energy projects and specifically offshore wind, Vineyard Wind said Monday it is ready to resubmit plans for a wind farm 15 miles south of
Martha s Vineyard that it yanked from federal review in early December.
Following a string of permitting delays imposed on the project by the Trump administration, Vineyard Wind on
Dec. 1 announced that it was pulling the 800-megawatt project out of the federal review pipeline in order to complete an internal study on whether the decision to use a certain type of turbine would warrant changes to the project s construction and operations plan.
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