An enormous new 1.2 GW offshore wind farm is headed to New England

Winery Offshore, which developed Winery Wind 1, has submitted a proposal for a 1.2 gigawatt (GW) offshore wind farm to 3 New England states.

A brand new offshore wind farm for New England

The proposal is for Winery Wind 2, and it was put ahead in response to a solicitation from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island for as much as 6.8 GW of offshore wind capability.

Winery Wind 2 was proposed to every state and to the three states collectively underneath the New England solicitation course of.

Winery Offshore asserts that its proposal contains greater than 200 letters of assist from native officers, suppliers, and stakeholders from all three states. An offshore wind tribal profit settlement was additionally lately signed with the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. 

“Because the group that developed Winery Wind 1, the nation’s first commercial-scale offshore wind undertaking, Winery Offshore is aware of how you can ship offshore wind to New England, and that’s by incomes the belief of the communities we work in,” mentioned Winery Offshore CEO Alicia Barton.

The 1.2 GW offshore wind farm would offer sufficient clear energy to the New England grid for the equal of greater than 650,000 households beginning in 2031. It will keep away from 2.1 million tons of CO2 emissions yearly throughout the area, equal to taking 414,000 automobiles off the highway.

Winery Wind 2 could be positioned 29 miles south of Nantucket in lease space OCS-522, held by funds that Copenhagen Infrastructure Companions manages. Winery Offshore is the US improvement companion for Copenhagen Infrastructure Companions, together with Avangrid.

Winery Offshore says Salem Offshore Wind Terminal in Massachusetts could be the staging website for wind turbine set up; basis parts could be made in Windfall, Rhode Island; and operations and upkeep for the finished Winery Wind 2 could be on the New Bedford Foss Marine Terminal in Massachusetts.

Export cable from Winery Wind 2 Wind would land in New London, Connecticut, and interconnect with the New England energy grid in Montville.

The proposal asserts that the event of Winery Wind 2 would generate roughly $2.3 billion in direct expenditure and three,800 job-years of employment throughout New England, with over $1.5 billion realized in Massachusetts, together with 80% of regional jobs.

Electrical energy market impacts and different advantages totaling as a lot as $4.8 billion over 20 years from including 1.2 GW of offshore wind to the New England grid embrace $600 million from lowered wholesale electrical energy market charges and avoidance of winter value spikes.

Electrek’s Take

Winery Wind is simply on the proposal stage, which was submitted at this time. So why write about it if it’s not a certainty?

As a result of it’s Winery Offshore that’s proposing it. Moreover New York’s South Fork Wind, Winery Wind 1 is the one US offshore wind farm to come back on-line to this point. It’s confirmed that it could deliver US offshore wind on-line. Plus, the corporate already holds the offshore lease space.

Winery Wind 2 has a darn good likelihood of coming to fruition.

Learn extra: 5 wind generators simply got here on-line at Massachusetts’ first offshore wind farm

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