A lease sale for offshore wind energy development in the Central Atlantic was announced Friday by the Department of the Interior. Seventeen companies qualified to bid on specific areas off the coast of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, which will be auctioned on Aug. 14 by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
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Ørsted's Skipjack Wind, a wind farm project in development off the coast of the Delmarva peninsula, has broken ties with the State of Maryland due to unviable renewable energy payments from the state. It is continuing project development and is repositioning for future opportunities, the company announced Thursday afternoon.
Moore announced Friday that Orsted is enabling the development of Maryland's first offshore wind component center in Baltimore County, with some prefabrication on the Eastern Shore.