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Renewables
Charley Rattan
Charley Rattan
Top Contributor
·Posted in Renewables
Mon, May 6

No significant impact | Beacon Offshore Wind, Massachusetts.

 

 

BOEM have completed the environmental review of the additional site assessment activities for the Beacon Wind project offshore Massachusetts.

During this review, we assessed the potential environmental, cultural, and historical impacts of these additional activities in the area and have determined that these activities will have no significant impact.

BOEM analyzed Beacon Wind’s proposal to conduct 35 deployments and removals of a single suction bucket foundation at 26 locations within its lease area. Beacon Wind’s objective is to gather information to support the engineering design of wind turbine and offshore substation foundations that would potentially be installed for a future offshore wind project. Use of this new technology could minimize underwater noise from installation and allow for more flexibility around supply chain constraints.

The proposed Beacon Wind project is located approximately 17 nautical miles (nm) south of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and approximately 52 nm east of Montauk, New York. Beacon Wind’s future project proposal includes construction and operation of two wind energy facilities (Beacon Wind 1 and Beacon Wind 2) with a total capacity of at least 2,430 megawatts of clean, renewable wind energy, enough to power over 850,000 homes each year.

 

 

 

 

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