The Biden administration approved plans to build a 141-turbine wind farm south of the Vineyard last week as another project off the Island’s coast appeared to be stalling out. 

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approved SouthCoast Wind on Friday, setting the company up to start construction on the farm about 26 miles south of the Vineyard. The 2.4 gigawatt project plans to send about twice as much power to Massachusetts and Rhode Island when compared to Vineyard Wind. 

Planned to be built in a 127,388-acre swath of ocean, export cables from the project will skirt the Vineyard, connecting to the grid in Somerset, and potentially later on in Falmouth. 

SouthCoast Wind, which is owned by the international renewable energy company Ocean Winds, has said it hopes to start construction in 2025 and potentially start delivering power by 2030. 

The approval comes in the waning days of the Biden administration, which has been supportive of offshore wind energy development. So far, BOEM has approved more than 19 gigawatts of wind power. 

“When we walked in the door of this Administration, there were zero approved, commercial-scale offshore wind projects in federal waters,” Deb Haaland, the secretary of the Interior, said in a statement.

And though the administration was cheering on the SouthCoast project, its planned neighbor Vineyard Wind 2 is in limbo after Connecticut state officials declined to sign on to buy power from the project. 

On Friday, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection announced it would forgo signing agreements to buy electricity from Vineyard Wind 2, opting instead to invest in solar power. 

The decision was a blow to Vineyard Offshore, the company behind Vineyard Wind 2, which was counting on Connecticut to buy about a third of its planned power production.

In September, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey opted to buy 800 megawatts from the project, as part of a planned three-state agreement with Rhode Island and Connecticut. 

In a statement Friday, Vineyard Offshore said it would not be able to contract the project’s full 1,200 megawatts due to Connecticut’s decision to not buy the remaining 400 megawatts. 

“We look forward to advancing this project and participating in future solicitations to meet the region’s growing energy needs while spurring economic investment and creating thousands of American energy jobs,” the company wrote.

Massachusetts is expected to have more bids for wind power in 2025, giving the company another chance to secure a buyer.

Vineyard Offshore is the same team that is behind Vineyard Wind 1, the offshore wind energy project that had one of its blades break earlier this year.