Livestreaming of conference audio and slides will be made available as a courtesy using GoToWebinar. Register for the morning session webinar and/or afternoon session webinar.

Agenda and Handout for the conference are available at the DOER Offshore Wind Study webpage.

Written stakeholder comments on Massachusetts Offshore Wind Transmission received in response to the Notice are available here.

If you have any questions, please email DOER at marian.swain@mass.gov

In 2018, Massachusetts passed An Act to Advance Clean Energy, Chapter 227 of the Acts of 2018 (the “Act”), which required the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) to 1) investigate the necessity, benefits and costs of requiring the electricity distribution companies (EDC) to conduct solicitations and procurements for up to 1,600 MW of additional offshore wind and 2) evaluate previous solicitation and procurement processes and make recommendations for any improvements.

Additionally, the Act allows DOER to require the EDCs to jointly and competitively solicit and procure proposals for offshore wind energy transmission sufficient to deliver energy generation procured under the Act.

DOER has solicited written comment and will hold a technical conference to gather data on whether and/or how a solicitation for independent transmission should occur and, if warranted, issue a separate contingent solicitation for independent transmission prior to additional solicitations for offshore wind. This effort will be undertaken in partnership with the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC).

Further information on offshore wind is available on DOER's Offshore Wind Study page.