New York based politicos and energy authorities are going forward with an ambitious offshore wind development that might be the biggest in the nation, located just thirteen miles off shore of the Borough of Queens.
The Long Island – New York City Official Wind Collaborative, a faction made up of utilities and government organizations stated just days ago that it would look at plans in the new year from energy producers for a three hundred fifty megawatt wind farm installation. Constructed close to the Rockaway Peninsula, it could total more than a billion dollars and comprise over one hundred wind turbine units.
Supporters would like the contracting energy producer to fund the initiative and then regain their expenditure by selling their power back to nearby civic power facilities, commencing in 2015. The group claims to have had initial contact with thirty energy producers to date who have shown interest in the development.
The Long Island Power Authority, a utility operated by the municipality, has been eager to construct an off shore wind installation for a few years now. Some civic resistance caused LIPA to abandon the idea in 2007 that would have seen an eight hundred million dollar development built near Jones Beach. LIPA along with Consolidated Edison Inc., a privately funded outfit, had a scheme in 2008 to develop a wind project ten miles of Queens’s south shore.
The latest plan would see the project constructed three miles off shore, and support from numerous governmental organizations would be behind it, together with the New York Power Authority, the New York City Economic Development Corp., New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, The Metropolitan Transportation Authority as well as The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
In comparison to European wind power development, the United States has not even begun a similar wind development operation of the same scope.
The project supporters are going to attempt to solicit funding from the federal economic stimulus program announced by Obama’s administration in order to finance the venture; it has not been eligible for this government handout since the endeavor would not be able to commence within the two year window of opportunity for construction. They are moving forward with fingers crossed that the stimulus plan will make an exception for a deadline extension due to the magnitude of the project.
Experts will soon begin dusting off their desks and prepare environmental examinations of the ocean’s wind, waves, flora and fawn. The joint group effort is hoping to link upwards of seven hundred megawatts of raw ocean wind energy to the shoreline, plenty to power up to two hundred thousand residences. They have made application to the New York Independent System Operator to run transmission cable and link the off shore wind installation in 2015. It is so much simpler to construct a wind power facility close by a populated center and you cannot bring wind power in from the west.
The Governor of New York, David Paterson along with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has each got their own agenda to bring an emergent renewable power facility into the area. Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC has an objective to decrease harmful climate altering carbon emissions in the City of New York thirty percent by the year 2030.
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