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The filing kicks off a two-year federal review process. Pending approval, construction of the project is scheduled to start in 2024.
Dominion estimates the wind farm will provide enough renewable electricity to power up to 660,000 homes upon the project’s completion in 2026. The project could create about 900 jobs and $143 million in economic impact annually during construction, and 1,100 jobs and nearly $210 million in economic impact each year during operation of the turbines.
“This is an important step in the process toward bringing commercial-scale offshore wind to the Commonwealth and shows Dominion Energy is committed to delivering the clean, renewable and reliable energy our customers expect from us,” Joshua Bennett, Dominion Energy’s vice president of offshore wind, said in a statement.
Filing with Bureau of Ocean Energy Management begins approximately two-year federal review process
Company on schedule to start construction on 2,640-megawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) in 2024
CVOW estimated to create hundreds of millions of dollars of positive economic impact, hundreds of jobs, enough renewable energy to power up to 660,000 homes
RICHMOND On Dec. 18, 2020 Dominion Energy announced the company has filed with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) the required Construction and Operations Plan (COP) to build the 2,640-megawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) commercial project, the largest planned offshore wind farm in the United States. This is an important step in the process toward bringing commercial-scale offshore wind to the Commonwealth and shows Dominion Energy is committed to delivering the clean, renewable and reliable energy our customers expect from us, said Joshua Bennett, Dominion Energy s vice president of offshore wind.
Posted On December 22, 2020
Dominion Energy announced Friday that the company has filed with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management of the federal Department of the Interior the required Construction and Operations Plan to build the 2,640-megawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind commercial project, the largest planned offshore wind farm in the United States.
“This is an important step in the process toward bringing commercial-scale offshore wind to the commonwealth and shows Dominion Energy is committed to delivering the clean, renewable and reliable energy our customers expect from us,” said Joshua Bennett, DE’s vice president of offshore wind.
The overall plan includes information about the construction, operations and conceptual decommissioning plans for Dominion Energy’s proposed offshore wind farm to be installed within a 112,800-acre lease area located 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach, which Dominion Energy obtained in 2013. Information about onshore and suppor
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