The project is a 97,498 acres (39,456 ha) section of Wind Energy Area (WEA) OCS-A 0486 (North Lease).

[8] The wind farm connects to the power grid through an underwater cable to East Hampton, New York.

[9] New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland held a groundbreaking ceremony in February 2022 for the project,[10] being built by Ørsted US Offshore Wind in conjunction with Eversource and the Long Island Power Authority.

[11] Governor Hochul announced the completion of the project on March 14, 2024, at an event with Secretary Haaland and other elected officials.

[19][20] Thomas Falcone, CEO of LIPA, said they hope to complete the contract in first quarter 2017 with construction beginning in 2019 and that it would be online in 2022.

A driving force of the petition was to fight a proposal for the preferred location for the 138-kilovolt electricity transmission line (export cable) to come ashore in the community at Beach Lane en route to an electrical substation in East Hampton.

[34] During the construction of South Fork Wind, hundreds of U.S. workers and three Northeast ports were engaged, laying the foundations of a new domestic supply chain and creating local union jobs.