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Maine Gov. Mills: Governor Energy Office Submits Federal Lease Application for Small-Scale Floating Offshore Wind Research Site
October 02, 2021
AUGUSTA, Maine, Oct. 2 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news release on Oct. 1, 2021:

The Governor's Energy Office (GEO) today submitted an application to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to lease a 15.2-square-mile area nearly 30 miles offshore in the Gulf of Maine for the nation's first floating offshore wind research site in federal waters.

The State hopes to deploy a small-scale research array of 12 or fewer wind turbines on i . . .

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