Icebreaker Wind

Located 13 km north of Cleveland, Ohio in Lake Erie. Freshwater, not tidal. Ohio Energy Gateway project.

Status
On Holdlifecycle stage
FragileHafrok completion outlook
Ownership
LELake Erie Energy Development Corporation — 100% ◇
Location
United States
Lake Erie
Technology
Capacity 20.7 MW ◇ Turbines 6 × 3.45 MW ◇ Model Vestas V126 3-45 ◇ Foundation Suction bucket ◇
Site & conditions
Site rights Seabed rights held 2020-05 ◆ Distance from shore 13 km ◇ Wind speed 8.1 m/s @ 100 m ≈
Revenue & grid
Offtake Other ◇
Grid —
Schedule
FID Not taken
COD · Hafrok —
On hold since 8 Dec 2023 ◆

Delivery outlook modelled by Hafrok · calibrated on delivered projects

—
on hold — no credible date; the chart shows when a restarted project might complete
Chance of delivery
≈7% estimated chance this project reaches commercial operation
Projects put on hold complete ≈15% of the time on Hafrok's record. This one sits well below that: a market with a thinner delivery record, technical complexity and no offtake contract yet. Only a restart would change that — there is no dated schedule to judge against. That figure is then halved while Hafrok reads the United States route as closed: a route that has to be won again is less likely to be won.
COD outlook
If it completes, when — Hafrok’s probability by year (teal)
20%40%60%80%100% 2033: 20.0% (conditional on completion) 2034: 20.0% (conditional on completion) 2035: 20.0% (conditional on completion) 2036: 20.0% (conditional on completion) 2037: 20.0% (conditional on completion)2026now20272028202920302031203220332034203520362037
COD probability by year, conditional on completion
YearProbability
203320.0%
203420.0%
203520.0%
203620.0%
203720.0%
How Hafrok got this date
1
On hold — no dated schedule
The project is recorded as On Hold, so no sequence of milestones can be trusted. Hafrok publishes no expected year; the chart instead spreads the remaining chance of completion over the years a restarted project might finish in.
2
Route closed until 2029
Hafrok believes a held project in the United States is unlikely to resume before a route to build exists again, and does not expect one before January 2029. On that reading the years the chart spreads the remaining chance over begin after 2029, not after today. This is Hafrok's judgment, not a fact on the record — what it rests on: United States market page.
3
Chance of delivery — separate from timing
Start from the share of On Hold projects that went on to complete — ≈15%, measured on Hafrok's record of delivered and abandoned projects, with an allowance held back where that record cannot yet speak (projects still unresolved, changed market conditions). Historically only a minority of projects put on hold returned to delivery — the estimate reflects that. Then adjust for this project's own evidence — offtake, market, size, technical complexity — and halve the result while Hafrok reads the United States route as closed (a route that has to be won again is less likely to be won) — to ≈7%, which rates it Fragile on Hafrok's four-step delivery scale (Delivering · Expected · Prospective · Fragile).

Project timeline verified milestones only — each date carries its provenance mark

Dashed tick marks today (13 Oct 2026).

Revenue & offtake route to market — open

No offtake secured — route to market open

DOE grant (demonstration); Ohio Power Siting Board approval — project indefinitely suspended 2025 ◇

The routes describe what exists in this market — not a prediction of which the project will take. Timing math for the auction gate lives in the delivery outlook above.
Next visible round · from the auction calendar
NYSERDA Offshore Wind Solicitation 6 (NY6) ◇
expected 2027 · planned · the round’s published documents do not name this project
design/RFI stage only; no timetable, conditioned on the federal market improving

Installation how the build is going · from sourced statements and Hafrok’s registers

Installation not started
Installation · on record
StageOn Hold
Offshore constructionnot started
Expected start of operationnot stated

Sources & verification

Rests on 10 sources (3 primary) · ◆ 4 documents held
◆Verified≈Modelled◇Sourced∴Inferred⌁Convention○Unverified∅No source·Derived
Numbers are stable citation ids — grouped by source class, so they are not consecutive.
Operator2
[7]
Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB)2026-03-19◆ Ohio Power Siting Board - Wind Case Stat…
“16-1871-EL-BGN NA Icebreaker 5/21/20 Cuyahoga (Lake Erie) 6 20.7”
supportsConsentSite rightsConsent appliedConsent granted
[8]
U.S. Department of Energy (EA-2045)2018-09◆ Final Environmental Assessment for Proje…
“A Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need, pursuant to Ohio Revised Code §4906.20, must be obtained from the Ohio Power Siting Board.”
supportsConsentSite rightsConsent appliedConsent granted
Auction pipeline1
[11]
Offshore Wind (offshorewind.biz)2026-02◆ ny-ny5-ended-2026
Press report — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
supportsNYSERDA Offshore Wind Solicitation 6 (NY6)
Trade press6
[2]
LEEDCo2024
supportsoperator
[3]
LEEDCo2018
supportsTurbinesTotal capacityDistance from shore
[4]
US DOE (Project Icebreaker EA-2045)2016
supportsTurbinesModelUnit capacityTotal capacityFoundation+3 more
[5]
4C Offshore2026-07-02
Press report — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
supportsCoordinates
[6]
DTU Wind Energy / World Bank (Global Wind Atlas)2026
supportsMean wind speed
[10]
Inside Climate News2023-12-08◆ Icebreaker offshore wind project halted …
Copyrighted source — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
supportsOn hold
Unverified import1
[1]
unknown
Copyrighted source — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
supportsTurbinesModelUnit capacityTotal capacityFoundation+2 more