Governor Hochul, with Interior Secretary Haaland and Governor Murphy, Announces Historic Wind Energy Auction Off New York and New Jersey Coast
Governor Hochul in conjunction with U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will be holding a wind auction on February 23 for an area consisting of 488,000 acres located in the New York Bight, along with a plan for a coordinated offshore wind supply chain effort between New York, New Jersey and BOEM, titled "A Shared Vision on the Development of an Offshore Wind Supply Chain."