The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) acted to “vacate” or render a federal permit invalid for the Maryland Offshore Wind project on Sept. 12.
The Maryland Offshore Wind Project would ultimately consist of up to 114 wind turbines, four offshore substations and a meteorological tower 10 nautical miles off the coast of Ocean City. US Wind, the company that plans to complete the project, expects the it to generate 2,200 megawatts of energy, enough to power more than 718,000 homes.
In January, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to temporarily cancel new or renewed offshore wind energy leases. The latest filing said BOEM initially “underestimated” the impacts such projects would have on search and rescue helicopters navigating the area and that impacts on commercial fisheries were not “sufficiently mitigated.”…