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November 19, 2014

The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) on November 17 announced that it has offered a right-of-way grant to Deepwater Wind for the Block Island Transmission System off of Rhode Island to transmit offshore wind energy.

Deepwater Wind’s proposed project would install a bi-directional submerged transmission cable between Block Island and the Rhode Island mainland. The transmission system would serve two purposes: to connect Deepwater Wind’s proposed 30 megawatt Block Island Wind Farm about 2.5 nautical miles southeast of Block Island to the Rhode Island mainland, and to transmit power from the existing onshore transmission grid on the mainland to Block Island. The right-of-way corridor, which is about eight nautical miles long and 200 feet wide, comprises the portion of the transmission line that crosses federal waters. See the DOI new release.