The three consortia led by Dominion, Fishermen’s Energy and Principle Power missed the 31 July deadline to complete one or more of the requirements, including 100% of project design, an operations and maintenance plan, all environmental documentation, and to secure a power off-take agreement, according to Jose Zayas, director of DOE’s Wind & Water Power Technologies Office.

“All three teams have asked for a no-clause time extension, which in essence is asking for a little bit of time to complete all four,” he said at the American Wind Energy Association’s Offshore Windpower 2015 conference in Baltimore.

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