Maine's Offshore Wind Port

Maine's Offshore Wind Port | Governor's Energy Office - Maine.gov

Maine is advancing plans for a purpose-built facility in Searsport at Sears Island for floating offshore wind fabrication, staging, assembly, maintenance, and ...

Port - Maine Offshore Wind Initiative

Maine's Offshore Wind Port · Maine owns the parcel on Sears Island that has been reserved for development since 2009. · The upfront and ongoing costs for a port ...

Maine Offshore Wind Initiative: Home

Maine is investing in a new purpose-built port in Searsport for offshore wind fabrication, staging, assembly, maintenance, and deployment. With deepwater access ...

Offshore Wind Port Advisory Group | MaineDOT - Maine.gov

The OSWPAG consists of 19 members representing varied stakeholder viewpoints including environmental, ports and marine transportation, fishing, labor and ...

Sears Island selected as preferred site for offshore wind power port

Nearly four years ago, Mills identified the Port of Searsport as the leading site in Maine to "support the transportation, assembly and ...

The Siting of an Offshore Wind Port Raises New Conflicts in Maine

The Siting of an Offshore Wind Port Raises New Conflicts in Maine · Coastal residents are conflicted over the planned location of a facility that advocates say ...

Feds reject Maine's request for $456 million to build proposed wind ...

Feds reject Maine's request for $456 million to build proposed wind port at Sears Island. Sears Island is Maine's preferred site because the ...

The plans for Maine's floating wind port, explained

Just this week, Maine was granted a lease from the federal government for a floating offshore wind research station about 30 miles off the ...

Searsport Offshore Wind Port - ArcGIS StoryMaps

The State of Maine does not have a marshalling port facility with sufficient space to support the construction, operation, and maintenance of ...

Offshore Wind in the Gulf of Maine

In February of 2024, Sears Island was announced as the State's preferred site for the offshore wind port, after significant stakeholder engagement and ...

Offshore wind is coming to Maine. Here's what we know.

Janet Mills announced that Sears Island on the northern tip of Penobscot Bay would be the location of a new port from which floating turbines ...

Offshore Wind Port Fact Sheet - Friends of Sears Island, Maine

Sears Island is under threat of development Maine Department of Transportation is considering developing Sears Island, one of the largest ...

State selects Sears Island as preferred site for Maine's new offshore ...

Sears Island is the best choice for an offshore wind port because the site is owned by the state, saving money that would otherwise be required ...

Maine environmental groups urge support for proposed offshore ...

The state has zeroed in on two potential wind port sites in Searsport: Mack Point, a piece of shoreline that now partly houses a Sprague Energy ...

Sears Island to House Maine's Floating Offshore Wind Port

Maine Governor Janet Mills has revealed that the state has selected a section of state-owned Sears Island reserved for port development as ...

Maine Announces Preferred Site for Offshore Wind Port

Maine is recommending to the federal government that a new offshore wind port be developed on Sears Island.

Maine - New England for Offshore Wind

Offshore wind energy is Maine's largest untapped resource. With an offshore wind procurement law in place as of July 2023 for 3 GW by 2040, Maine is a top ...

Maine misses out on $456 million sought for offshore wind port

Federal transportation officials turned down Maine's request for a $456 million grant to develop a port for floating offshore wind energy.

The plans for Maine's floating wind port, explained

What are the plans? The state of Maine wants to build a $760 million port that can specifically accommodate the assembly and deployment of ...

Floating Offshore Wind Port Feasibility Study

The Maine Department of Transportation contracted Moffatt & Nichol to evaluate the feasibility of using the existing Mack Point Terminal at Searsport to ...