Southern Company seeks US offshore wind interim lease

The Southern Company is seeking to amend an earlier application for a stationary tower to collect wind resource data off the Georgia coast, a move that would give it the option to install a floating platform equipped with the latest laser technology to take measurements at higher elevations.

Tim Leljedal, a spokesman for the holding company, based in Atlanta, tells Recharge that the original application for two lease sites near Tybee Island in the Atlantic Ocean was filed in April 2011 with the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). The second was submitted in July. Both are pending with BOEM.

A spokeswoman says BOEM is not in a position yet to make contents of either application public, which is why they are not on its website. BOEM would need to approve an interim policy lease that gives holders an…

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