Equinor plans to place bids into New York and New Jersey offshore wind auctions using the unused part of its lease area south of Long Island, which will become the Empire Wind Phase 2 project, Siri Kindem, president of Equinor Wind US, told lawmakers in Washington DC.
The 324sq km (80,000 acre) zone in federal waters has about 2GW nameplate generation capacity with 816MW contracted last year in New York State’s first offshore wind power solicitation, according to the US Department of Energy.
