Vineyard Wind Statement on BOEM’S Acknowledgement of Temporary COP Withdrawal

(NEW BEDFORD, MA) – Vineyard Wind released a statement following an acknowledgement from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) that the agency has received the company’s request for a temporary pause in the federal permitting process: 

“On December 1, Vineyard Wind announced that it was temporarily withdrawing its Construction and Operation Plan (COP) for the Vineyard Wind I project in order to complete necessary due diligence associated with the announcement that the project will be utilizing new industry-leading wind turbine generators from U.S. based General Electric.  The short pause is to allow the project team to conduct a final technical review associated with the inclusion of GE’s 13 MW Haliade-X into the final project design.

“We have received acknowledgement from BOEM of the temporary withdrawal of our COP, as we requested, and we look forward to working together again after we notify the agency to resume its review.  Over the past three years, this project has been through an extremely rigorous process and we believe the agency can promptly restart the process.  As we’ve said at the time we made this initial decision, a short delay now still allows us to deliver the project on the appropriate timeline, with financial close in the second half of 2021 and power coming onto the grid in 2023. 

“We continue to progress on our due diligence efforts and we intend to notify the BOEM in several weeks when it can resume and complete its review of the COP.”