TotalEnergies wins maritime lease to develop offshore wind farm

This bid for the development of an offshore wind farm in the Carolina Long Bay area offshore North Carolina was won for a consideration of US$160 million by TotalEnergies.

Located 20 nautical miles (37 km) from the coast, the lease covers a 120 square nautical miles area (222 km²) that will generate a capacity of more than 1 GW, enough to provide power to more than 300 000 homes. The project is expected to come online by 2030.

This announcement follows the award in February 2022 of a lease to develop a 3 GW wind farm off the coast of New York and New Jersey, US.

“Being awarded this lease, our second offshore wind project in the US, demonstrates the strength of our commitment to the country and to our transformation in a multi energy company. This project adds to our portfolio of more than 10 GW gross capacity of renewable projects in operation, in construction, and in development in the US. It is one more step towards our objective of reaching 100 GW of renewable electricity generation worldwide by 2030,” said Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies.

The Carolina Long Bay project is part of the US government’s goal to deploy 30 GW of offshore wind in the US by 2030, in response to the climate challenge.

For more news and technical articles from the global renewable industry, read the latest issue of Energy Global magazine.

Energy Global's Spring 2022 issue

The Spring 2022 issue of Energy Global includes a range of technical articles on energy storage, wind, solar, waste-to-energy, and more. In addition, this issue also features a regional report on the renewable energy market in Asia.

Read the article online at: https://www.energyglobal.com/wind/13052022/totalenergies-wins-maritime-lease-to-develop-offshore-wind-farm/