Dominion Energy has acquired yet another offshore wind lease, this one next to and east of the area in the Atlantic where its 2,600-megawatt, 176-turbine wind farm is under construction.

The company’s new lease is on a 176,505-acre stretch of the Atlantic, some 35 miles east of the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Dominion bid $17.7 million for the lease.

Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.