More than 300,000 acres could eventually be put up for lease off of North Carolina's coast, and in Florida, the BOEM has proposed four small wind
energy leasing areas east of Fort Lauderdale.
Not exact matches
Buoyed by Cuomo's renewable
energy plan and the extension of federal tax credits, solar companies are blanketing rural
areas with mailings seeking
leases on farmland for solar arrays spanning 20 acres or more.
Meantime, as a result of groundwork laid by NYSERDA, the state announced it has asked the federal Bureau of Ocean
Energy Management to consider identifying and
leasing at least four new Wind
Energy Areas off the coast.
The federal government designates wind
energy development
areas off of all U.S. coastlines and
leases those
areas to private developers.
Wind development
areas were
leased off the Delaware and Maryland shores last year, and the BOEM issued the nation's first offshore wind research
lease in March to Virginia's Department of Mines, Minerals and
Energy, which plans to build a 12 megawatt wind farm off the shore of Virginia Beach.
On Nov. 23, 2015, the U.S. Bureau of Ocean
Energy Management (BOEM) published a Call for Information and Nominations to gauge the offshore wind industry's interest in acquiring commercial wind
leases in four
areas offshore South Carolina and to request comments.
This map shows the Bureau of Ocean
Energy Management's outer continental shelf oil and gas
leasing areas, with the Chukchi and Beaufort seas highlighted.
Maryland
Lease Auction Winner In August the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and Bureau of Ocean
Energy Management (BOEM) announced that U.S. Wind Inc., a unit of Italy's Renexia, is the provisional winner of the auction for Maryland's offshore wind
lease areas.
The
area proposed for leasing is the same as the Kitty Hawk Wind Energy Area (WEA) that BOEM announced on August 11, 2
area proposed for
leasing is the same as the Kitty Hawk Wind
Energy Area (WEA) that BOEM announced on August 11, 2
Area (WEA) that BOEM announced on August 11, 2014.
The proposed
lease is for the Kitty Hawk Wind
Energy Area, which BOEM identified in consultation with members of its North Carolina Intergovernmental Renewable
Energy Task Force.
DONG validated the New England market's potential last summer, when it took over a Department of Interior Wind
Energy Area lease site off the Massachusetts coast and opened an office in Boston.
Instead of allowing large
areas to be used for solar
energy at a cheap price, the US government should
lease the
area to developers at a price similar to the price paid in recently developed
areas near LA.
Today's announcement builds on BOEM's work to foster offshore renewable
energy development through a collaborative state - federal process to identify Wind Energy Areas and hold competitive lease
energy development through a collaborative state - federal process to identify Wind
Energy Areas and hold competitive lease
Energy Areas and hold competitive
lease sales.
«The Wind
Energy Area is based on a proposal by the New York Power Authority (NYPA) in 2011, when it submitted an application for a commercial wind
lease.
Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, from and after enactment of the Deep Ocean
Energy Resources Act of 2008, the Secretary shall not offer for
leasing for oil and gas, or natural gas, any
area within 50 miles of the coastline that was withdrawn from disposition by leasing in the Atlantic OCS Region or the Pacific OCS Region, or the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region Eastern Planning Area, as depicted on the maps referred to in this subparagraph, under the Memorandum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from Leasing Disposition, 34 Weekly C
area within 50 miles of the coastline that was withdrawn from disposition by
leasing in the Atlantic OCS Region or the Pacific OCS Region, or the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region Eastern Planning
Area, as depicted on the maps referred to in this subparagraph, under the Memorandum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from Leasing Disposition, 34 Weekly C
Area, as depicted on the maps referred to in this subparagraph, under the Memorandum on Withdrawal of Certain
Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from
Leasing Disposition, 34 Weekly Comp.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, from and after the enactment of the Deep Ocean
Energy Resources Act of 2008, prior to January 1, 2022, no
area of the outer Continental Shelf located in the Gulf of Mexico east of the military mission line may be offered for
leasing for oil and gas or natural gas unless a waiver is issued by the Secretary of Defense.
ensure that natural gas
leases are only available for tracts on the outer Continental Shelf that are wholly within 100 miles of the coastline within an
area withdrawn from disposition by
leasing on the day after the date of enactment of the Deep Ocean
Energy Resources Act of 2008;
In December, the international
energy company Statoil Wind US LLC won an auction from the federal government to
lease the
area for wind
energy development.
Compact P is an
energy - efficient total indoor climate solution for all types of low -
energy buildings, single - family homes, flats and small office
areas in commercial
leases with a ventilation requirement of up to 300 m3 / h.
The federal Bureau of Ocean
Energy Management (BOEM) recently initiated the area identification process by issuing a Call for Information and Nominations for identifying and leasing additional wind energy areas in the New York
Energy Management (BOEM) recently initiated the
area identification process by issuing a Call for Information and Nominations for identifying and
leasing additional wind
energy areas in the New York
energy areas in the New York Bight.
We bring this up because some are suggesting that the 2017 - 2022
leasing program the Bureau of Ocean
Energy Management (BOEM) is building shouldn't include the Arctic because of recent pauses on development in the
area.
The White House's key
energy policy document cites the EIA's oil demand forecast, and its outlook for steady oil demand decades into the future, as the basis for the latest round of
lease sales in the Outer Continental Shelf, which includes
areas in the Atlantic Ocean offered for the first time in decades together with new
areas made available north of the Arctic Circle in the Chukchi Sea.
Equally important: Strongly worded concern from the most recent letter's signers that the draft 2017 - 2022 plan for oil and natural gas
leasing offered by the Bureau of Ocean
Energy Management not be weakened by removing any of the
leasing areas in the proposal.
Despite the Koch influence in North Carolina and elsewhere along the Atlantic seaboard (New Jersey is another notorious example), DOI has been forging ahead with a program of
lease sales in designated Wind
Energy Areas, in waters managed by the Bureau of Ocean
Energy Management.
The
lease area, known as the Kitty Hawk Wind Energy Area, consists of 122,405 acres in the Atlantic, east of Currituck Sound, about 24 nautical miles from shore at its closest point to sh
area, known as the Kitty Hawk Wind
Energy Area, consists of 122,405 acres in the Atlantic, east of Currituck Sound, about 24 nautical miles from shore at its closest point to sh
Area, consists of 122,405 acres in the Atlantic, east of Currituck Sound, about 24 nautical miles from shore at its closest point to shore.
The latest such signal is an announcement from the Department of Interior proposing a
lease sale for the 122,405 - Acre Kitty Hawk Wind
Energy Area.
«In response to the announcement by the Crown Estate of a further
leasing round for offshore wind
energy made last year Marine Scotland are undertaking a scoping exercise to identify potential
areas for future development sites which will be consulted upon this spring.
The potential benefits from future
energy production from this week's auctioned
leases — jobs, economic growth and revenue for government — also suggest a couple of «what ifs»: What if the federal government included the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in its next five - year
leasing plan, the first step toward development in those
areas?
Company executives talk about their desire to develop the
lease area, and also their opinion that offshore wind
energy is way too expensive to succeed.
In accordance with this plan, Dominion's surrogate, the Virginia government, asked BOEM to make the
lease term for Virginia's Wind
Energy Area 45 years instead of 25.
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