Filing Points to Longer Delay for Offshore Wind Power Contracts

Offshore Power Agreements Delayed Citing Uncertainties in US Policy

For the fourth time in a year, power purchase agreements that were due to be signed for offshore wind farms to serve Massachusetts and Rhode Island ha...

Filing points to longer delay for offshore wind power contracts - The Martha's Vineyard Times

The next round of offshore wind power projects for Massachusetts moved even further out of reach Monday when state officials got word that project developers and utilities will not meet Monday’s already-delayed target for finalizing contracts and might not submit contracts for state approval until 2026. Massachusetts selected 2,678 megawatts of offshore wind power spread across three projects in September 2024, kicking off contract negotiations.…

Wind energy contract deadline pushed back

The deadline for companies to finish up contracts covering part of the state’s slow-to-start wind power plans has blown by once more without any deals in place and will again be pushed, this time to the end of the year. The June 30 deadline to execute wind energy contracts comes following a 2023 request for proposal from the Healey Administration for the state’s “fourth and largest offshore wind solicitation.” According to a spokesperson for DOE…

Filing points to longer delay for offshore wind power contracts

BOSTON (SHNS) - The state's offshore wind power aspirations were set even further back Monday with a six-month delay in the process of finalizing new projects, a slowdown that comes as the governor and elected officials on Beacon Hill are in agreement that Massachusetts needs more energy, really no matter what kind. Nearly a decade after the state chose to focus its pursuit of cleaner energy generation mainly on offshore wind and Canadian hydro,…

Healey again puts offshore wind on back burner - CommonWealth Beacon

BOWING TO OPPOSITION from President Trump, the Healey administration on Monday put its offshore wind plans on hold yet again and said it is committed to an “all-of-the-above approach to energy.”  Price negotiations between the state’s utilities and two offshore wind developers were supposed to wrap up on Monday, but the parties filed a brief statement saying they couldn’t reach a deal “due to ongoing uncertainty caused by federal level activitie…

Windtech International - Massachusetts delays offshore wind contract finalisation to late 2025

The timeline for executing long-term contracts for offshore wind energy in Massachusetts has been extended, with agreements now expected by the end of 2025. This follows the state’s fourth offshore wind solicitation, which was approved by the Department of Public Utilities in August 2023.