April 6, 2023 — Representatives of the Governor’s Energy Office took questions from a legislative committee Wednesday about the scale of offshore wind projects that might be sited in the Gulf of Maine, and their potential impacts on whales, fisheries, and aesthetics.
Celina Cunningham of the Governor’s Energy Office says a network of floating wind turbines 20 miles offshore would require miles of cable buried 6 feet under the ocean floor. Cunningham expects that wind projects would eventually be interconnected with those elsewhere in New England.
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