US President Joe Biden’s administration has marked out a swathe of the New York Bight between Long Island and the New Jersey coast for its first round of competitive Atlantic offshore wind lease area sales, set to launch as early as the fourth quarter.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the federal industry regulator, said it identified four “priority” zones within the Bight that for administrative purposes will comprise a single Wind Energy Area (WEA) totalling an estimated 9.6GW