The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in the USA has found no significant environmental concerns in the proposed buildout of offshore wind in the New York Bight. With the Environmental Assessment cleared, 800,000 acres of federal waters will be made available to developers, promising a potential capacity of over 7 GW. The US offshore wind boom was also boosted this week by both Massachusetts and Maryland, with each dishing out support for 1.6 GW of offshore wind in their respective states, across four separate projects. Avangrid was the largest victor of the solicitation, securing backing for its 1,232 MW Commonwealth Wind project off Massachusetts where Mayflower Wind also secured backing for a 400 MW project. In Maryland, US Wind…