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Dominion Energy plans to build the single largest offshore wind project in the US in the state of Virginia, bringing, according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) a “huge economic opportunity” for the state. Laura Smith Morton, senior director, offshore wind, AWEA, said: “Offshore wind will strengthen Virginia’s economy with many highly skilled careers and new investments in the shipbuilding, port and coastal infrastructure.” If approved, the Dominion Energy offshore wind project will be located within the 112,800 acres the company leases from the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach.

and operations plan will be submitted to BOEM in 2022.

Dominion Energy recently began construction of the 12MW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, the first fully permitted wind project in US federal waters. Following the deployment of the CVOW project in 2020, Dominion Energy will progress with its commercial offshore wind project in three phases, each totaling 880MW. The project’s first phase is expected to begin producing electricity by 2024. Additional phases will come online in 2025 and 2026, totaling 2,600MW of energy-generating capacity.

Ocean survey work is expected to begin in 2020 and the construction

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