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March 2018 1

Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association 3/14/2018

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Where are we in the process?

Federal Permitting State Permitting December 2017 Draft COP submitted

• Ongoing updates to

COP until deemed sufficient

• Available for review

before finalizing ENF (MEPA) & EFSB Applications January/February 2018

• MEPA hearing and

scoping for Environmental Impact Report (DEIR).

• MEPA Certificate

released April 2018 EIS Scoping Hearings EFSB Hearing DEIR Submitted May - August DEIR Review and FEIR production EFSB ongoing review August/September DEIS Released by BOEM Public input opportunities (purple)

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– First offshore wind developer to enter into a community partnership: Vineyard Power Coop

– Non-profit serving 10% of Martha’s Vineyard’s customers

– Letters of Support from all towns of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, and Mashpee Wampanoag – First US offshore wind developer to engage a fisheries’ representative – Local staff with extensive U.S. offshore wind experience

– Based in New Bedford – Offices in Vineyard Haven and Boston

Vineyard Wind: Local stakeholder and community focused since 2009

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Turbine Site Identified by Multi-Year Stakeholder Process

– BOEM – Federal Process

– 2010 BOEM Task Force

– Local government representatives – Multiple stakeholder meetings – Habitat and fisheries working groups

– 2011: Request for Interest – 2012: Environmental Assessment & Call for Information – 2014: Lease Sale Notices – 2015: Auction and Lease issuance – 2015 – Present: Task Force & Working Groups on-going guidance and consultation

– Massachusetts Policy

– Energy Diversity Act of 2016

– Utilities procure total of 1600MW of

• ffshore wind

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Project Context and Background

– Vineyard Wind Lease area OCS-A 0501 – ~261 square miles – Northern tip of Lease Area is ~35 miles

• ffshore from Cape Cod, and ~14 miles

south of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket – Study and analysis began as soon as lease acquired in 2015

– Building on earlier consultations by project and Vineyard Power – Offshore geological surveys in 2016 and 2017 Additional surveys planned for spring and summer 2018

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Outreach

– Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound – Association to Preserve Cape Cod; – Cape and Islands Self-Reliance; – Cape and Vineyard Electrical Cooperative; – Cape Cod Fishermen’s Alliance; – Cape Light Compact; – Climate Action Business Association; – Coalition for Social Justice; – Conservation Law Foundation; – Coonamessett Farm Foundation; – Eastern Fisheries; – Environment Massachusetts; – Environmental Business Council of New England; – Environmental League of Massachusetts; – Hercules SLR; – Long Island Commercial Fishing Association; – Martha’s Vineyard Fishermen Preservation Trust; – Massachusetts Audubon Society; – Massachusetts Clean Energy Center; – Massachusetts Fisheries Institute; – Massachusetts Fisheries Working Group; – Massachusetts Fishermen’s Partnership and Support Services; – Massachusetts Habitat Working Group; – Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association; – Nantucket Rotary Club; – National Academies of Sciences, Offshore Renewable Energy Development and Fisheries Conference; – National Wildlife Federation; – Natural Resources Defense Council; – New Bedford Harbor Development Commission; – New England Aquarium; – New England Energy and Commerce Association; – New England Fishery Management Council – Northeast Fisheries Sciences Center; – Northeast Fishery Management Council; – Northeast Fishery Sector Managers X, XI, XIII, VII, VIII; – Port of New Bedford; – Recreational Fishing Alliance; – Rhode Island Fishermen’s Advisory Board; – Rhode Island Habitat Advisory Board; – Scallop Industry Advisors Meeting; – Sierra Club; – Stoveboat - Saving Seafood; – The Nature Conservancy; – Town Dock; – University of Massachusetts (various campuses); and – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

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Nearest suitable existing substations are in Barnstable

– Minimizes amount of cable installed – No changes to existing transmission system will be required – Connection location enhances grid reliability by providing power at edge of grid system

Federal waters ~ 37 miles

Construction and Operations Plan Project Envelope

Layout and Project Size Foundation WTGs Inter-array cables Export Cables Electrical Service Platform (ESP)

• ~800MW project
• Up to 106 WTG positions
• Continuous construction from 2021 to

2024 or 2 ~400MW stages with up to 5 years in-between construction periods

• 800MW of monopiles or 400MW of piles

and up to 400MW of jackets

• Pile driving hammer
• Scour protection on all positions
• Installation with a jack-up vessel or

vessel on dynamic positioning (DP) with feeder barges

• 8 – 10MW WTG
• Rotor size of 164-180 m (538-591 ft)
• Hub height of 109-121 m (358-397 ft)
• Installation with a jack-up vessel or

vessel on dynamic positioning (DP) with feeder barges

• 66kV cables
• Example layout identified, not finalized
• Maximum total cable lengths indicated
• Installation techniques include jet plow,

mechanical plow & mechanical trenching.

• Installation with a vessel on dynamic

positioning (DP)

• Pre-lay grapnel run
• Up to three 220kV export cables
• Two corridors identified with variants
• Max total cable lengths indicated
• Installation techniques include jet plow,

mechanical plow & mechanical

• trenching. Dredging in some locations

to achieve burial depth

• Installation with a vessel on dynamic

positioning (DP) and some use of an anchored vessel

• Use of mattresses or rock protection on

areas of minimal cable burial

• Pre-lay grapnel run
• Four light-weight ESPs or two

conventional ESPs

• Each ESP installed on one monopile or

a single jacket foundation

• Scour protection on all positions
• Installation using foundation and

turbine installation vessels or specialized crane vessel

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LEGEND

Service Layer Credits:

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Map Coordinate System: NAD 1983 UTM Zone 19N 2 4 Nautical Miles 2.5 5 Kilometers 1 inch = 9 kilometers Scale 1:360,000 Vineyard Wind Lease Area by OCS Block Number Wind Development Area for COP Review Bathymetric Contours 10m Interval

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Electrical Service Platforms

*Please note, WTG and Offshore Substation yellow and green markers have been enlarged in this figure for visibility Basemap: NOAA 12300-05-2008

Project Layout

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Foundations

Monopiles Jackets

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Scour Protection

Scour – Stone placed around foundation

– Sized between 4-12 inches – 3-6 feet high

– Protects the foundation from the removal of sediments near the base. – Dimensions

– 138ft - 170ft diameter

Scour protection radius 22-26m (72-85ft)

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Proposed Offshore Cable Corridors

– 2 possible corridors: Western & Eastern (only 1 will be

used)

– Multiple options through Muskeget Channel – August/September 2017 surveys, more in 2018

– Routing

– Considerations include water depth, bathymetry, SSU areas, etc. – Federal and state waters (Land Under the Ocean) – Avoidance of mapped eelgrass habitat and core habitat for whales – Minimization of impacts to hard/complex bottom areas

– Installation via jet-plow, plow, or mechanical trenching

– Target burial depth = 5 to 8 feet (1.5 to 2.5 m) – 6-foot-wide swath affected by trenching – Where sand waves are present, dredging will be used to achieve target burial depth

– Extensive outreach with local and regional fishermen and their representatives

Site Data

Extensive data is available on the site that has been collected by Vineyard Wind and others

Benthic Data

Sampling and video available from:

• SMAST
• Coonamesset Farm Foundation
• NEFSC
• Vineyard Wind
• Cape Wind

Side Scan Sonar & Bathymetry data throughout WDA and cable routes

• Impact area: .4% of Wind Development

Area

• Data used to describe benthic resources

(grab and image) in the Offshore Project Area came from a robust dataset and previous studies conducted within or near the Project Area between 2012-2017

• Data allowed for the characterization of

abundance, diversity, community composition, and percent cover of benthic macrofauna and macroflora, both within the Project Area and surrounding area.

• Seafloor conditions within the WDA are

very homogenous, dominated by fine sand and silt-sized sediments that become finer in deeper water.

• Overall, the simulations show that

sediment is not transported far from the route and resettles rapidly due to the high proportion of coarse sand throughout the route.

From COP: Mitigation:

• Siting of cables with sensitive habitat

avoided as much as possible

• Utilize widely-spaced WTGs, so that

the foundations (and associated scour protection) for the WTGs, along with the ESPs, inter-link cables, and inter-array cables, only occupy a minimal portion of the WDA, leaving a huge portion of the WDA undisturbed

• Conduct post-construction

monitoring to document habitat disturbance and recovery.

• Where feasible and considered safe,

use mid-line buoys on anchor lines to minimize impacts from anchor line sweep.

Fisheries (biologic) Data

Data resources:

• Northeast Fisheries Science

Center multispecies bottom trawl surveys

• Massachusetts Department of

Marine Fisheries Trawl surveys

• School of Marine Science and

Techology (SMAST) Survey of the WDA

• Southern New England Industry-

Based Yellowtail Flounder Survey

• Northeast Area Monitoring and

Assessment Program

• Total biomass of fish is low across the Project

Area, while species richness is relatively high. High species richness has been linked to increased ecosystem resilience or the ability of an ecosystem to recover from disturbance

• Many of the fish species found off the

Massachusetts coast are important due to their value as commercial and/or recreational fisheries.

• Wind Development Area: Sediment dispersion

modeling indicates that deposition of 0.2 mm

• r greater is centered around the cable trench

and no deposition over five millimeters occurs.

• Cable Routes: The simulations show that

sediment is not transported far from the route and resettles rapidly due to the high proportion

• f coarse sand throughout the route.
• The low total fish biomass and high species

richness in the Project Area makes this location ideal for wind energy as it reduces impacts to individual organisms and targets an area which will likely be able to recover following any potential Project-related disturbances.

From COP:

• To mitigate the potential impacts of injury to fish

from pile driving, the Project will apply a soft-start procedure to the pile driving process, which delivers initial pile drives at a lower intensity, allowing fish to move out of the activity area before the full-power pile driving begins.

• Impacts to benthic organisms may be minimized

through the use of mid-line buoys, if feasible and safe, and installation equipment that minimizes installation impacts, such as a jet plow. In nearshore areas where sensitive resources are located, horizontal directional drilling may be used to minimize impacts.

• Vineyard Wind is developing a framework for a

pre- and post-construction fisheries monitoring program to measure the Project’s effect on fisheries resources. Vineyard Wind is working with the Massachusetts School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST) and local stakeholders to inform that effort and design the study.

Mitigation:

Fisheries (socio) Data

Data resources:

• Northeast Fisheries Science

Center multispecies bottom trawl surveys

• Massachusetts Department
• f Marine Fisheries Trawl

surveys

• VMS Trip & Dealer Reports

(2011 – 16)

• Vessel Trip Reports (2011-

16)

• NE Fisheries Observer

Program Database

• RI-SAMP
• MA Ocean Management

Plan

• Commercial fishing revenue generated

from within the MA WEA constitutes small percentages of each fishery’s total revenue

• Silver Hake was the most abundant

landing of the small mesh species sourced from the MA WEA based on percentage of revenue.

• The annual average revenue of over

$212 million for Lobster harvested between 2007 and 2012, approximately $300,000 per year was harvested from the MA WEA.

• Squid vessels are active throughout the

WDA and along portions of the offshore export cable corridor through Nantucket Sound.

• Vessels targeting Monkfish are trawling

portions of the WDA, though vessel density increases to the north of the WDA, in the areas on either side of Muskeget Channel.

From COP:

• Siting of cables with sensitive habitat

avoided as much as possible

• Burial of cables to address EMF

concerns

• Conduct post-construction monitoring

to document habitat disturbance and recovery.

• Grid pattern and transit corridors in

wind turbine layout

• Utilizing suspended sediment

minimizing installation techniques for cable installation

Mitigation:

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– 2 Nantucket power cables

– each ~28 miles long

– 3 power cables to Martha’s Vineyard – Cable to Block Island from RI

– ~20 miles

– 2 cables between New Haven and Long Island

– Crosses Long Island Sound – ~25 mi, ~15 years ago

– Sayreville NJ to Long Island

– 50 miles of submarine cable – 15 mile underground on Long Island

– Many communications cables

– Decades old in many cases

Existing Submarine Cables

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LEGEND

Service Layer Credits:

°

Map Coordinate System: NAD 1983 UTM Zone 19N 2 4 Nautical Miles 2.5 5 Kilometers 1 inch = 9 kilometers Scale 1:360,000 Vineyard Wind Lease Area by OCS Block Number Wind Development Area for COP Review Bathymetric Contours 10m Interval

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WTG

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Electrical Service Platforms

*Please note, WTG and Offshore Substation yellow and green markers have been enlarged in this figure for visibility Basemap: NOAA 12300-05-2008

Active Consultation and Response

– Layout

– Grid pattern, transit corridors – in consultation with fishermen – Up to 1nm apart

– Active and ‘live’ fisheries communication plan reviewed by regulators, fishermen and fishing organizations

– Fishery Liaison and Fishery Representatives

– Electronic chart thumb drives – Feedback under review

– ‘Loose’ turbine locations along 20 fathom contour line – Consider larger rock size for scour protection (rip rap)

– Potential lobster habitat

– N/S & E/W corridor

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Further Engagement with Fishing Community

– Agreement with SMAST for pre- and post-construction fishery studies

– SMAST will consult with fishing industry, regulators and academia - on what should be studied – Data will be publically available

– Fishing Partnership & Support Services – Partnership

– Vineyard Wind sponsorship of safety and survival trainings for fishermen – Martha’s Vineyard & New Bedford

– Fishery Liaison (FL) and Fishery Representatives (FR)

– Actively seeking permanent FL – Looking to expand FR network

– Booth at the Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association trade show.

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Contact Details

Erik Peckar - erik@vineyardpower.com 508-693-3002 For the latest project information please visit www.vineyardwind.com