Massachusetts and Rhode Island announce offshore wind project contract awards

Massachusetts and Rhode Island have announced three offshore wind project contract awards, totalling 2,878 MW of new offshore wind capacity.

 

Massachusetts has chosen to contract for 1,087 MW out of the 1,287 MW available from the SouthCoast Wind multistate project, the full 791 MW from the New England Wind 1 project, and up to 800 MW from the 1,200 MW Vineyard Wind 2 project. Rhode Island has chosen to procure the remaining 200 MW from SouthCoast Wind’s multistate project.