Sunrise Wind, Outer Continental Shelf, USA
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to issue a loan guarantee to Sunrise Wind LLC (the “Applicant”), to support construction and initial operations of the Sunrise Wind offshore wind energy project (“Sunrise Wind” or the “Project”). The Project involves the construction and operation of an offshore wind power facility consisting of up to 84 wind turbine generators with a maximum project capacity of 924 megawatts. The project would be within the area of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) covered by Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Renewable Energy Lease No. OCS-A 0487, approximately 18.9 statute miles (mi) south of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and approximately 30.5 mi east of Montauk, New York, and 16.7 mi from Block Island, Rhode Island. Other components of the Project will be located on the OCS, in state waters of New York, and onshore in the Town of Brookhaven, Long Island, New York. This Project would help the state of New York achieve the clean energy goals set forth in the Clean Energy Standards Order and the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act through an Offshore Wind Renewable Energy Certificate Purchase and Sale Agreement (OREC) with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to deliver 880 MW of offshore wind energy. Sunrise Wind has the ability under the OREC to deliver a maximum capacity of 924 MW of offshore wind energy (NYSERDA 2024).
In September 2024, DOE adopted the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 2023 Sunrise Wind Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), (per 40 CFR 1506.3(b)(1)), as a DOE Final EIS (DOE/EIS-0566). The files listed below, collectively, comprise DOE's Final EIS (DOE/EIS-0566).