Dominion wins offshore lease

13 September 2013


US utility Dominion Virginia Power has paid $1.6 million for the right to develop an offshore wind farm off the east coast of the USA.

The company outbid Apex Clean Energy in the second offshore wind lease auction to be held by the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and will lease 112 800 acres 27 miles off the coast of Virginia.

BOEM estimates that the site could produce up to 2000 MW. Earlier this year in BOEM's first offshore wind lease auction, Deepwater Wind won the lease for 165 000 acres off the coast of Massachusetts.

Dominion is currently developing two 6 MW pilot turbines through a grant from the Department of Energy at a site adjacent to the lease. The company expects to have the test turbines up and running by 2017 in what will be its first wind power project.

Dominion estimates it will be 10 years before it puts any turbines on the plot it won in the auction. It has to submit a construction and operations plan to BOEM within five years.



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