Deepwater bids to supply Long Island with 1GW wind farm

Long Island residents pay some of the highest electricity rates in the US

Developer Deepwater Wind is bidding to supply up to 600MW of power to Long Island via a subsea transmission line that it would build from a proposed wind project off Rhode Island, chief executive Bill Moore tells Recharge.

The Deepwater Wind Energy Center is a 200-turbine, 1GW project that would be located in the Atlantic Ocean at least 32km from shore, generating power for 350,000 homes, and displacing about 1.7 million tonnes of CO 2 each year.

The transmission line would connect Long Island, New York, with the wind farm and a substation in Massachusetts. The developer has applied for a commercial lease covering about 700sq km of federal waters.

Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), the nation’s second-largest municipal electricity utility by revenue, with 1.1 million customers, issued…

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