<span id="docs-internal-guid-50574d2f-215e-4308-96fc-172e75ef8303"></span><br /> <h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 20pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Interior Department to Auction Over 79,000 Acres Offshore New York for Wind Energy Development</span></h1>

  Fourteen companies qualified to bid in 6th competitive lease sale

map of the lease area

The New York Wind Energy Area starts approximately 11.5 nautical miles (nm) from Jones Beach, NY. From its western edge, the area extends approximately 24 nm southeast at its longest portion. The lease area consists of five full Outer Continental Shelf blocks and 143 sub-blocks.

14 companies that BOEM has deemed legally, technically and financially qualified to participate in the upcoming lease sale:

• Avangrid Renewables, LLC
• CI-II NY Inc.
• DONG Energy Wind Power (U.S.) Inc.
• Innogy US Renewable Projects LLC
• wpd offshore Alpha LLC
• Deepwater Wind Hudson Canyon, LLC
• Energy Management, Inc.
• Convalt Energy LLC
• Clean Power Northeast Development Inc.
• New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
• Statoil Wind US LLC
• EDF Renewable Development, Inc.
• Fishermen’s Energy, LLC
• Sea Breeze Energy LLC
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Link here to read Interior Department press release