Empire Wind Project Public Hearings In City Of Long Beach

Press release from the City of Long Beach:

June 29, 2021

Please be advised, public hearings for the offshore wind farm project, Empire Wind, will take place virtually tomorrow, June 30 at 5pm. Additional meetings are planned for July 8 at 5pm and July 13 at 1pm.

The project developer, Equinor, has two contracts with New York State to provide over 2,000 megawatts of offshore wind power from the turbine field and plans to construct up to 174 wind turbines off the Long Island coast by 2027. The developer has included Long Beach as a possible site where offshore cables will make land to bring the wind energy to the Long Island and New York City power grids.

For additional information and to register for the meetings, please visit https://www.boem.gov/Empire-Wind-Scoping-Virtual-Meetings.

This press release was produced by the City of Long Beach. The views expressed here are the author’s own.