BOEM Issues Final Sale Notice for Offshore Wind Lease Areas in Carolina Long Bay
U.S. Energy, Infrastructure, and Resources Alert
By: Stanford D. Baird, Kenneth J. Gish, Jr, Nathan C. Howe, David L. Wochner, Kimberly B. Frank, Ankur K. Tohan
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will hold its next offshore wind lease auction on 11 May 2022, for two lease areas in the Carolina Long Bay. The lease areas comprise 110,091 acres off the coast of North and South Carolina. The auction date will occur weeks ahead of a 10-year moratorium on offshore energy leases imposed in 2020 by the Trump administration prohibiting auctions of leases for wind, in addition to oil and gas, off the coasts of North and South Carolina beginning on 1 July 2022.
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