A historic moment took place last week in New York, setting great precedence in the state and another milestone in the Mid-Atlantic region—following Maryland’s MET tower installation via US Wind and Virginia’s upcoming demonstration project, which consists of two six-megawatt wind turbines—and the rest of the country in its efforts to use 100% clean energy sources by 2040.

Governor Andrew Cuomo awarded contracts for two projects with a combined power of 1,700 megawatts, which is enough to power a million homes, Bloomberg reports. Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor and Massachusetts-based firm Eversource Energy (in a joint venture with Denmark’s Orsted) will build the two projects off Long Island. This is the largest offshore wind project deal yet ever signed in the country and is set to be completed by 2024.

“The actions we take today will be the most consequential of my administration,” Cuomo said Thursday at a press conference. “They literally will determine the future, or the lack thereof.”

This move follows last month’s signing of legislation to “adopt the country’s most ambitious climate targets, including 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2040 and economy-wide, net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.” Bloomberg notes that the contracts will require utilities to purchase power from the wind projects, which will prove “crucial to the financing and development of offshore wind power in the U.S.”

The two projects, Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind, will account for 20% of Governor Cuomo’s overall goal for offshore wind. The former will be developed by Eversource-Orsted and will generate 880 megawatts, about 30 miles east of Montauk Point; the latter, which will be developed by Equinor, will produce 816 megawatts, and will be located about 20 miles south of Long Island.