East Coast Offshore Wind Updates from the MAFMC

(Dec. 12, 2019) … I am on a lot of mailing lists for all of the fishery groups, councils, managers etc. The Mid Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC) has an update they send out now for wind farm projects along the East coast. We will keep posting these as we get them. I think anglers as a whole need to stay up to date on these projects and please seek out factual information for themselves. Anglers For Offshore Wind Power is a great source.

Greetings,
Please see below for offshore wind updates for December 13, 2019.

1. Equinor wind will hold informal open houses with the fishing community next week in three New York locations (see below for details). For more information, please see the Equinor layout brochure and questionnaire for fishermen, or contact Elizabeth Marchetti, fisheries liaison (401-954-2902, emarc@equinor.com).

Tuesday, December 17, 2019. Freeport Library, 144 W. Merrick Road, Freeport, New York, 11520. 7 pm -9 pm.

Wednesday, December 18, 2019. Hampton Bays Library, 52 Ponquogue Avenue, Hampton Bays, New York, 11946. 10 am -12pm.

Thursday, December 19, 2019. Montauk Library, 871 Montauk Highway, Montauk, New York, 11954. 5 pm – 7 pm.

2. New York State and the Responsible Offshore Development Alliance are seeking feedback on a set of transit corridor options for the New York Bight. More information is available here. Comments should be submitted by December 21, 2019.

3. The Maryland Public Service Commission announced a public comment opportunity regarding a change in the turbine size anticipated for use in the Skipjack and U.S. Wind projects. The official public comment period closed on November 15, 2019, but comments may still be submitted online or by mail. More information is available here.

4. New Jersey’s Governor Phil Murphy signed an executive order to more than double the state’s offshore wind goal to 7,500 megawatts by 2035. More information is available here. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection announced plans to establish a new working group with fishing industry representation to provide guidance on achieving the new 7,500 megawatt goal. More information is available here.

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5. The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection selected Vineyard Wind’s Park City Wind Project to advance to contract negotiations with the state’s electric distribution companies to provide 804 megawatts of power to the state. More information is available here.

6. Anbaric Development Partners filed an application with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for non-exclusive rights of way to develop an offshore transmission grid to serve multiple offshore wind projects off Southern New England. More information is available here. BOEM may publish a notice of this application and an associated public comment period in the Federal Register at a later date.

7. Updated notices to mariners regarding survey activities off Massachusetts through Maryland have been posted here.

For information on specific projects, please see the individual developer web pages linked at: http://www.mafmc.org/northeast-offshore-wind.
If you wish to suggest an item for inclusion in the next month’s update, please email wind@mafmc.org.
Select wind updates from the New England Fishery Management Council are included in their periodic news roundups. To sign up for New England Fishery Management Council updates, please email Janice Plante at jplante@nefmc.org.

To sign up for this list, go to http://www.mafmc.org/email-list, enter your email address and check the box for “Offshore Wind Updates.” If you are already subscribed to any other Council email lists, this will not affect your other subscriptions.

skipjack windfarm, 17 miles off the coast, orsted, rendering
Wind Turbine rendering of the proposed Skipjack wind farm if these were 17 miles off the coast .. no ruler for scale .. done by a friend with no connection to the wind farm company .. it is simple math

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