France's TotalEnergies partners to build wind farm off US East Coast

Wind turbines in the United States' first offshore wind farm, off the coast of Rhode Island, in operation since 2016. TotalEnergies will be building a 3 gigawatt wind farm off the coasts of New Jersey and New York, to be operational by the 2030s. © Michael Dwyer/AP

French energy company TotalEnergies will be spearheading an offshore wind energy project off the east coast of the United States with Corio, a dedicated wind developer, and the New York-based electricity producer Rise Light & Power, to generate electricity for a million homes across New York and New Jersey.

TotalEnergies will hold 56 percent of the Attentive Energy project, with the rest held by Corio, an offshore wind developer owned by the green investment unit of the Australian conglomerate Macquarie, and the New York Light & Power (Rise).