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Interior Department to streamline offshore wind permitting, nix unsolicited leasing

July 7, 2020 — States along the East Coast have issued ambitious goals for offshore wind, and industry stakeholders, including prospective developers, have urged BOEM for more federal leasing opportunities.

BOEM identified “deregulatory opportunities” on offshore wind developments, that will add more flexibility to geophysical and geothechnical survey submission requirements, streamlining approval of meteorological buoys, revising project verification procedures, and providing “greater clarity regarding safety requirements.” The Trump administration is pushing deregulation and streamlined permitting as a general approach for energy and other projects.

“This latest process announcement from BOEM offers some long-term hope for improvement, but the time is now; the federal government can’t wait or delay using its existing tools to spur economic investment,” Noah Shaw, partner at Hodgson Russ and former general counsel at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), told Utility Dive.

Read the full story at Utility Dive

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