Massachusetts Offshore Wind Deadline December 31, 2025

 Power Purchase Agreement Due December 31, 2025. If extended again, it will be the sixth extension. 
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SouthCoast Wind faced major challenges in finalizing its power purchase agreement (PPA) for its Massachusetts project, with a key deadline of Dec. 31, 2025, for contract finalization after Rhode Island Energy gave up multiple of its talks and extensions.
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Rhode Island Energy (RIE) terminated its PPA talks with SouthCoast Wind in November 2025, citing the inability to agree on terms
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Offshore wind developers must finalize contracts with Massachusetts utilities by year-end, navigating spiraling costs and legal hurdles, including a stalled Cape Cod cable plan, that impact the project's viability.  
SouthCoast Wind withdrew its Falmouth Heights cable landing plan, adding to project complications.
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The project now faces significant hurdles, including regulatory delays, financial pressures, and legal challenges, threatening its execution.
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The SouthCoast Wind project's Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Massachusetts has faced multiple extensions, with deadlines repeatedly pushed back from late 2024 through mid-2025 (e.g., Nov 2024, Jan 2025, Mar 2025, June 2025) due to federal policy uncertainty and negotiation hurdles, leading to significant project delays, with Rhode Island eventually cancelling its separate PPA with the project in late 2025.
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SouthCoast Wind ended its Massachusetts offshore wind contracts that it had signed in late 2023 by paying a $60 million termination fee to the state's utilities (Eversource, National Grid, Unitil)

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

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