Maine has applied for a federal lease for offshore wind, a milestone to jump-start the industry

MAINE PUBLIC • October 1, 2021

A big milestone today for Gov. Janet Mills' plan to jump-start an offshore wind energy industry in Maine: She's submitted to federal regulators a proposal for a 15-square mile area off Maine's mid-coast where up to 12 floating turbines might be sited. She'd originally planned to submit a lease proposal by this spring, but after deeply-skeptical fishermen complained that the process was being rushed she agreed to take more time. The director of the Governor's Energy Office, Dan Burgess, says the final site proposal attempts to meet a number of basic requirements.