Gulf of Maine

All four leases sold for the minimum bid of $50 per acre. That's a big drop from 2018.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it made the change in response to comments from various sources, including the fishing industry, the U.S. Coast Guard, navigation interests, and the National Marine Fisheries Service.

The Assembly of Delegates voted Wednesday to send a letter with that request to the Biden administration.

The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management hosted the information session in response to complaints that the agency has not done enough on the Outer Cape to communicate its plans.

An association that represents 22 towns on Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket is asking for more time to comment on plans for offshore wind lease areas off the Outer Cape.

The federal government has issued a draft report that evaluates the environmental effects of pre-construction activities for offshore wind off the Outer Cape.

Future offshore wind projects off the Outer Cape, in the Gulf of Maine, are likely to use floating turbines. Javier Molinero, a civil engineer whose current work focuses on floating offshore wind, discusses the choice to use floating turbines and how they may be anchored to the seafloor.

The Biden administration this week published the location of eight areas to be leased for offshore wind development in the Gulf of Maine, a body of water that runs from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia.