The Bureau of Ocean Vitality Administration (BOEM) is publishing a name for data and nominations for doable wind power leasing off the coast of the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam.
This name will collect public feedback to tell potential leasing areas, and outcomes from shut collaboration with the federal government of Guam, which goals to generate 50 p.c of its electrical energy from renewable power sources by 2035 and one hundred pc by 2045.
The decision will publish on Jan. 6, initiating a 90-day remark interval ending on April 7, throughout which era the general public can submit related data on web site situations, marine assets, and ocean makes use of close to or inside the name space. Concurrently, wind power firms can nominate particular areas they want to see supplied for leasing.
In the course of the name remark interval, BOEM will have interaction with indigenous peoples, stakeholder organizations, ocean customers, federal businesses, the federal government of Guam, and different events to determine conflicts early within the course of as BOEM seeks to determine areas the place offshore wind improvement would have the least affect. This data shall be used to considerably slim the realm to be thought-about for future offshore wind leasing.
The decision requests data on one contiguous space across the island that contains roughly 2.1 million acres. The realm begins about three nautical miles from shore at its closest factors, in water depths starting from roughly 350 to 2,200 meters.
For extra data on the Guam name, together with a map of the realm and directions for commenting, see BOEM’s Guam webpage.
