Feds select possible new offshore wind areas off the coast of Maryland beaches

Federal regulators have chosen three new areas that could host offshore wind farms off the Mid-Atlantic East Coast, including sites off Ocean City, Virginia Beach and the Delaware beaches. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is “committed” to hold an auction for what it calls the Central Atlantic by August 2024, determining which companies get to lease the selected areas to construct wind farms, said bureau spokesman John Filostrat in a statement.