November 15, 2019 — Details are scant, but a meeting between developers of the proposed South Fork Wind Farm and the New York State Public Service Commission to begin negotiations on a settlement took place on Friday morning at East Hampton Town Hall.
Orsted U.S. Offshore Wind and Eversource Energy, which jointly plan to construct and operate the South Fork Wind Farm some 35 miles off Montauk, had filed notice with the Public Service Commission in September to begin settlement negotiations in the commission’s review of their application to install the wind farm’s export cable in state waters and on the subterranean path to a Long Island Power Authority substation in East Hampton.
A meeting scheduled to take place on Oct. 8 at the commission’s offices in Albany was canceled after East Hampton Town and state officials objected to its location and to what an attorney representing the town said was unreasonably short notice.
Among the 52 parties that had registered to attend the meeting were town officials, including Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc and members of the town board, as well as members of the town trustees.