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Cape Wind Project

Aerial photo of an offshore wind farm.

The Bureau has issued a commercial lease to Cape Wind Associates, LLC (CWA) for the right to construct and operate an offshore wind facility located in Federal waters 4.7 miles offshore Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The project area is located on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound. The project consists of 130, 3.6 megawatt wind turbine generators with the capacity to produce about 468 megawatts.

Interim Policy Projects

The interim policy was announced in November 2007 before the issuance of the final regulations in April 2009. The interim policy allowed for limited leasing and was designed for resource data collection and technology testing activities. The interim policy leases have a five year term and provide no subsequent commercial rights. In June 2009, the MMS offered a total of five leases, four in New Jersey and one in Delaware. Four of the offered leases were executed on November 1, 2009.

bullet Executed Interim Policy Leases 
bullet OCS-A 0472 – Deepwater Wind LLC (2 MB PDF)
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OCS-A 0473 – Fishermen’s Energy of New Jersey LLC (2 MB PDF)

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OCS-A 0474 – Bluewater Wind Delaware LLC (2 MB PDF)

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OCS-A 0475 – Bluewater Wind New Jersey Energy LLC (2 MB PDF)

bullet Decision Memorandum on Issuance of OCS Limited Leases Under the Interim Policy Offshore Delaware and New Jersey (691.92 KB PDF)
bullet Environmental Assessment for Issuance of Leases for Wind Resource Data Collection on the OCS Offshore Delaware and New Jersey (1481.64 KB PDF)
bullet Interim Policy Proposed Projects

Last Updated: 03/11/2011, 01:57 PM Central Time