The announcement follows the government’s recent announcement that it has approved more than 15 gigawatts of clean energy from offshore wind projects since the start of the Biden-Harris administration — equivalent to half of the capacity needed to achieve President Biden’s goal of 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will hold an auction for areas off Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts coasts.

New England fishermen are steaming over a final sale notice from the feds for nearly 1 million acres in the Gulf of Maine designated as a hub for wind energy, even with the area much smaller than initially sought.

The US Department of Interior has set an auction date of Oct. 29 for its first sale of offshore wind energy leases in the Gulf of Maine, including several areas east of Cape Cod. Together, the eight lease areas total about 830,