Abstract
This report supplements the Revolution Wind Farm Construction and Operations Plan.
Revolution Wind, LLC (Revolution Wind), a 50/50 joint venture between Orsted North America Inc. (Orsted NA) and Eversource Investment LLC (Eversource), proposes to construct and operate the Revolution Wind Farm Project (hereinafter referred to as the Project). The wind farm portion of the Project will be located in federal waters on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the designated Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Renewable Energy Lease Area OCS-A 0486 (Lease Area). The Lease Area is approximately 20 statute miles (mi) (17.4 nautical miles [nm], 30 kilometers [km]) south of the coast of Rhode Island.
Section 2.0 of this technical report describes the species and life stages with designated EFH, as well as Habitat Areas of Particular Concern (HAPCs), that may occur within the RWF area and/or the RWEC corridor. Potential impacts and environmental protection measures are discussed in Section 3.0.