Dominion acquires a third offshore wind lease

Dominion Energy has acquired yet another offshore wind lease, this one next to and east of the area in the Atlantic where its 2,600-megawatt, 176-turbine wind farm is under construction. The company’s new lease is on a 176,505-acre stretch of the Atlantic, some 35 miles east of the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Dominion bid $17.7 million for the lease. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which handles leasing of offshore sites for wind farms as well as oil and gas wells, has said the leased area could support wind...