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The US Department of Interior (DOI) has approved the Maryland Offshore Wind Project, the nation’s tenth commercial-scale offshore wind energy project approved under the current administration.
With this approval, the Department has approved more than 15GW of clean energy from offshore wind energy projects, half the capacity needed to achieve the country’s goal of 30GW of offshore wind energy by 2030. Projects approved to date will be able to power 5.25m homes.
US Wind’s Maryland Offshore Wind Project will have a capacity of over 2GW and power over 718,000 homes. The development and construction phases of the project could support around 2,680 jobs annually over seven years.
The lease area is approximately 8.7 nautical miles offshore Maryland and approximately nine nautical miles from Sussex County, Delaware, at its closest points to shore.
The Maryland Offshore Wind Project consists of three planned phases, which include the proposed installation of up to 114 wind turbine generators, up to four offshore substation platforms, one meteorological tower, and up to four offshore export cable corridors.
Two phases, known as MarWin and Momentum Wind, already have offshore renewable energy certificates from Maryland. |
