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Yesterday was the Nation's First Offshore Wind Renewable Energy Auction

"The provisional winner of today’s lease sale, which auctioned two leases for a Wind Energy Area of 164,750 acres offshore Rhode Island and Massachusetts for wind energy development, is Deepwater Wind New England, LLC. When built, these areas could generate enough combined energy to power more than one million homes." - excerpt from Department of Interior press release.

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