The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has identified two Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) to develop offshore wind farms. A lease sale is expected later this summer. One 546,000-acre WEA is located south of Galveston; the other is a 188,000-acre tract off the coast of Lake Charles, Louisiana. According to BOEM, the two WEAs have the potential to power 2.3 million and 799,000 homes, respectively, with clean energy generated by continuously renewable offshore wind.