The Atlantic Wind Connection can now move directly to an environmental review of its proposed underwater electric transmission line that would connect future wind farms off the Delaware coast.
The Wilmington New Journal reports that the US Department of the Interior this week said no one entered a competitive bid for the ocean tracts.
The $5 billion underwater project is called a backbone and would consist of a 300-mile underwater transmission line along a 200-foot-wide right of way.
It would be located around 10-to-18 miles offshore.
But there is uncertainty about the future of wind power off the coast of the First State.
Bluewater Wind had a contract to provide offshore wind power to Delmarva Power.
But problems have cropped up around the financing with uncertainty about the future of federal credits for offshore wind NRG Energy which owns Bluewater terminated the contract in December.
