Offshore Wind Planning Areas (Rescinded July 30, 2025)

Type  Enterprise Geodatabase Feature Class

Tags  BOEM, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Wind Planning Area, Atlantic, Renewable Energy, Pacific, Hawaii, Offshore Wind, Alternative Energy, Gulf of Mexico

Summary

OCS lease blocks and sub-blocks currently under investigation for potential wind lease area development.

Description

These data show the lease blocks and sub-blocks which represent the current investigations by BOEM for new areas of interest in offshore wind energy development. For a general outline version of this layer, go to the Offshore Wind Planning Area Outlines layer.

Credits

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Office of Renewable Energy Programs (OREP)

Use limitations

https://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/

Extent

West  -158.663606     East -71.589978
North  41.137577     South 20.776510

Scale Range

Maximum (zoomed in)  1:5,000
Minimum (zoomed out)  1:150,000,000

Topics and Keywords  ▼►

Themes or categories of the resource Boundaries, Oceans, Utilities & Communication, Location, Planning & Cadastral, Environment

Content type ⇔ Downloadable Data
Export to FGDC CSDGM XML format as Resource Description No

Citation  ▼►

Title Offshore Wind Planning Areas
Revision date 2018-04-09 00:00:00
Creation date 2018-04-09 00:00:00
Publication date 2018-04-09 00:00:00

Presentation formats digital map

Citation Contacts  ▼►

Responsible party - publisher 
Individual's name Office of Renewable Energy Programs
Organization's name Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)

Contact information ▼►
Address 
Type 
e-mail address geoseas@boem.gov

Resource Details  ▼►

Dataset languages English (UNITED STATES)
Dataset character set utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer Format

Spatial representation type vector

Processing environment Esri ArcGIS 10.4.1.5686

Credits 
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Office of Renewable Energy Programs (OREP)

ArcGIS item properties 
Name ⇔
Size ⇔ 0.000
Location ⇔
Access protocol ⇔

Extents  ▼►

Extent 
Geographic extent 
Bounding rectangle 
Extent type 
Extent used for searching
West longitude -158.663606
East longitude -71.589978
North latitude 41.137577
South latitude 20.776510
Extent contains the resource Yes

Extent in the item's coordinate system 
westBL ⇔ -158.663621
eastBL ⇔ -66.910842
southBL ⇔ 20.776513
northBL ⇔ 44.769023
exTypeCode ⇔ Yes

Resource Points of Contact  ▼►

Point of contact - publisher 
Individual's name Office of Renewable Energy Programs
Organization's name Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)

Contact information ▼►
Address 
Type 
e-mail address geoseas@boem.gov

Resource Maintenance  ▼►

Resource maintenance 
Update frequency as needed

Resource Constraints  ▼►

Constraints 
Limitations of use 
https://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/

Spatial Reference  ▼►

ArcGIS coordinate system 
Type ⇔ Geographic
Geographic coordinate reference ⇔ GCS_WGS_1984
Coordinate reference details ⇔ 
GeographicCoordinateSystem 
WKID 4326
XOrigin -400
YOrigin -400
XYScale 999999999.99999988
ZOrigin 0
ZScale 1
MOrigin 0
MScale 1
XYTolerance 8.983152841195215e-09
ZTolerance 0.001
MTolerance 0.001
HighPrecision true
LeftLongitude -180
LatestWKID 4326
WKT GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137.0,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433],AUTHORITY["EPSG",4326]]

Reference system identifier 
Dimension horizontal
Value 4269
Codespace EPSG
Version 9.8(3.0.1)


Spatial Data Properties  ▼►

Vector ▼►
Level of topology for this dataset ⇔ geometry only

Geometric objects 
Feature class name RE.CDR_WIND_PLANNING_AREAS
Object type ⇔ composite
Object count ⇔ 5218
ArcGIS Feature Class Properties ▼►
Feature class name RE.CDR_WIND_PLANNING_AREAS
Feature type ⇔ Simple
Geometry type ⇔ Polygon
Has topology ⇔ FALSE
Feature count ⇔ 5218
Spatial index ⇔ TRUE
Linear referencing ⇔ FALSE

Data Quality  ▼►

Scope of quality information ▼►
Resource level dataset

Lineage  ▼►

Lineage statement 
Status of current wind planning areas only. Historical data are maintained by BOEM, but are not included in this dataset.

Distribution  ▼►

Distributor ▼►
Contact information - publisher 
Individual's name Office of Renewable Energy Programs
Organization's name Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)

Contact information ▼►
Address 
Type 
e-mail address geoseas@boem.gov
Distribution format 
Name ⇔ Enterprise Geodatabase Feature Class
Version SQL Server

Fields  ▼►

Details for object RE.CDR_WIND_PLANNING_AREAS ▼►
Type ⇔ Feature Class
Row count ⇔ 5218
Definition 
Data type.

Definition source 
ESRI

Field Shape ▼►
Alias ⇔ Shape
Data type ⇔ Geometry
Width ⇔ 8
Precision ⇔ 0
Scale ⇔ 0

Field description 
Feature geometry.

Description source 
ESRI

Description of values 
Coordinates defining the features.

Field OBJECTID ▼►
Alias ⇔ OBJECTID
Data type ⇔ OID
Width ⇔ 4
Precision ⇔ 10
Scale ⇔ 0

Field description ⇔ 
Internal feature number.

Description source ⇔ 
Esri

Description of values ⇔ 
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Field PROTRACTION_NUMBER ▼►
Alias ⇔ Protraction Number
Data type ⇔ String
Width ⇔ 10
Precision ⇔ 0
Scale ⇔ 0


Field BLOCK_LABEL ▼►
Alias ⇔ Block Label
Data type ⇔ String
Width ⇔ 6
Precision ⇔ 0
Scale ⇔ 0


Field BLOCK_NUMBER ▼►
Alias ⇔ Block Number
Data type ⇔ String
Width ⇔ 10
Precision ⇔ 0
Scale ⇔ 0


Field SUB_BLOCK ▼►
Alias ⇔ Sub Block
Data type ⇔ String
Width ⇔ 5
Precision ⇔ 0
Scale ⇔ 0


Field PRIMARY_WPA_CATEGORY ▼►
Alias ⇔ Category 1
Data type ⇔ String
Width ⇔ 50
Precision ⇔ 0
Scale ⇔ 0


Field SECONDARY_WPA_CATEGORY ▼►
Alias ⇔ Category 2
Data type ⇔ String
Width ⇔ 6
Precision ⇔ 0
Scale ⇔ 0


Field ADDITIONAL_INFORMATION ▼►
Alias ⇔ Additional Information
Data type ⇔ String
Width ⇔ 250
Precision ⇔ 0
Scale ⇔ 0


Field URL1 ▼►
Alias ⇔ URL 1
Data type ⇔ String
Width ⇔ 250
Precision ⇔ 0
Scale ⇔ 0


Field URL2 ▼►
Alias ⇔ URL 2
Data type ⇔ String
Width ⇔ 250
Precision ⇔ 0
Scale ⇔ 0


Field AREA_STATUS ▼►
Alias ⇔ AREA_STATUS
Data type ⇔ String
Width ⇔ 255
Precision ⇔ 0
Scale ⇔ 0


Field Shape.STArea() ▼►
Alias ⇔ Shape.STArea()
Data type ⇔ Double
Width ⇔ 0
Precision ⇔ 0
Scale ⇔ 0


Field Shape.STLength() ▼►
Alias ⇔ Shape.STLength()
Data type ⇔ Double
Width ⇔ 0
Precision ⇔ 0
Scale ⇔ 0


Metadata Details  ▼►

Metadata language English (UNITED STATES)
Metadata character set utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer Format

Metadata identifier 095F1164-0E0C-446E-85BB-1765DD41DB0C

Scope of the data described by the metadata dataset
Scope name dataset

Last update ⇔ 2024-12-05 

ArcGIS metadata properties
Metadata format ArcGIS 1.0
Standard or profile used to edit metadata NAP
Metadata style FGDC CSDGM Metadata

Created in ArcGIS for the item 2022-03-23 10:42:59
Last modified in ArcGIS for the item 2024-12-05 17:13:11

Automatic updates
Have been performed Yes
Last update 2024-12-05 16:50:05

Metadata Contacts  ▼►

Metadata contact - publisher 
Individual's name Office of Renewable Energy Programs
Organization's name Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)

Contact information ▼►
Address 
Type 
e-mail address geoseas@boem.gov

Metadata Maintenance  ▼►

Maintenance 
Update frequency as needed