Attentive Energy Two Offshore Wind is the Latest Project to Receive FAST-41 Permitting Assistance
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Permitting Council Press Office (media@permittting.gov)
WASHINGTON (December 11, 2024) – The Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (Permitting Council) is pleased to announce the latest project to receive permitting assistance through the FAST-41 program, the Attentive Energy Two Offshore Wind project. If permitted, this project is expected to power over 650,000 New Jersey homes with clean renewable energy.
“As the central coordinating body for permitting offshore wind energy in the U.S., the Permitting Council could not be more pleased to welcome the Attentive Energy Two project to the FAST-41 permitting assistance portfolio,” said Eric Beightel, Permitting Council Executive Director. “With our assistance 6 offshore wind projects have completed all federal reviews and authorizations on the permitting dashboard, and we plan to ensure that this project receives the same great benefits as it makes its way through the federal permitting process.”
Located approximately 42 miles from the nearest point in New Jersey in the New York Bight Lease Area, Attentive Energy Two Offshore Wind is expected to generate 1545 megawatts of energy. Project sponsors anticipate that it will play a significant role in achieving New Jersey’s renewable energy goals, while creating economic opportunities statewide.
The Permitting Council serves as a key implementing agent of the Biden-Harris Administration’s goal to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030. The Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will lead the project through federal environmental reviews and authorizations. Learn more at permitting.gov.
About the Permitting Council and FAST-41
Established in 2015 by Title 41 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST-41) and made permanent in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Permitting Council is a unique federal agency charged with improving the transparency and predictability of the federal environmental review and authorization process for certain critical infrastructure projects. The Permitting Council is comprised of the Permitting Council Executive Director, who serves as the Council Chair; 13 federal agency Council members (including deputy secretary-level designees of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Army, Commerce, Interior, Energy, Transportation, Defense, Homeland Security, and Housing and Urban Development, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Chairs of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation); and the Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
The Permitting Council coordinates federal environmental reviews and authorizations for projects that seek and qualify for FAST-41 coverage. FAST-41 covered projects are entitled to comprehensive permitting timetables and transparent, collaborative management of those timetables on the Federal Permitting Dashboard. FAST-41 covered projects may be in the renewable or conventional energy production, electricity transmission, energy storage, surface transportation, aviation, ports and waterways, water resource, broadband, pipelines, manufacturing, mining, carbon capture, semiconductors, artificial intelligence and machine learning, high-performance computing and advanced computer hardware and software, quantum information science and technology, data storage and data management, and cybersecurity sectors. The Permitting Council also serves as a federal center for permitting excellence, supporting federal efforts to improve infrastructure permitting including and beyond FAST-41 covered projects to the extent authorized by law, including activities that promote or provide for the efficient, timely, and predictable completion of environmental reviews and authorizations for federally-authorized infrastructure projects.
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Last Updated: Wednesday, December 11, 2024