Last month the Department of Interior (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) held its first
competitive auction for commercial solar development on public lands, offering three parcels for
lease with a collective acreage of 3,700 in the San Luis Valley of Colorado.
The announcement comes one week before DOI's first
competitive offshore wind
lease auction is held for 164,750 acres for development off the coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island on July 31st, an event Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has said could set the pace for future
auctions.