If no significant impacts are identified in the WEAs, the DOI would likely offer leases in these areas by early 2012.

FORBES: Offshore Wind Race Accelerates Across Atlantic

Over the next two months, the DOI will identify WEAs off the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Virginia.

FORBES: Offshore Wind Race Accelerates Across Atlantic

In 2001, the DOI will identify additional WEAs for other Atlantic states, which may include Georgia, Maine, New York, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

FORBES: Offshore Wind Race Accelerates Across Atlantic

WEAs are areas being considered by state-federal government offshore wind task forces and large public-private wind power consortiums like the Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium.

FORBES: Offshore Wind Race Accelerates Across Atlantic