Wind power in Maryland

This was split into two (north and south) lease areas and auctioned by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on August 19, 2014.

[9] The Maryland Wind Energy Area is located, at its closest point, about 10 nautical miles offshore Ocean City in the Outer Continental Shelf of Atlantic Ocean and has the potential to support between 850 and 1450 megawatts of commercial wind generation.

[25] As of the summer of 2016 US Wind has completed underwater surveys of the potential sites about a dozen miles off the coast of Maryland and is submitting plans for environmental review by year end.

[28][22] The Port of Paulsboro on the Delaware River in New Jersey could become the production site for the enormous concrete foundations for turbines.

[29] Ørsted has proposed using 1.5 acres of land at Fenwick Island State Park in Delaware as a transmission point.