Despite intense and growing developer interest in US offshore wind zones, the federal government is sticking to its leasing schedule – with a planned lease auction off Massachusetts still on track for later this year, one off New York in 2019 or 2020, and a potential sale off California likely still at least a few years away.
First up for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the Interior Department agency that conducts lease sales in federal waters, is Massachusetts, where a lease auction will be held for three zones on 13 December.
