Vineyard Wind has been granted a further two weeks to negotiate off-take contracts with Connecticut utilities for electricity from the 804MW Park City Wind offshore development off the US east coast.
The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) extended the deadline to 18 May from 4 May following a request from Vineyard Wind for more time to conclude the power purchase agreements (PPAs) with Eversource Energy and United Illuminating Company.
The developer requested the extension in order to resolve some unnamed issues regarding the PPAs, receive all necessary stakeholder approvals and file the negotiated agreements with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.
DEEP said in a letter dated 1 May that, given the “complexity of the negotiations”, it believed the extension request is “appropriate”.
The organisation had previously granted an extension to Vineyard Wind to 4 May from 3 April because of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
It encouraged the companies to “complete negotiations as expeditiously as possible to avoid any potential adverse impacts from a delay in the negotiations”.
Park City Wind was slected by DEEP in Connecticut’s 2019 offshore wind solicitation in December last year.