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Offshore wind energy projects in New York, New Jersey and Maryland are moving forward, as federal regulators examine the proposals and opponents escalate their legal challenges to the work ...
The E. F. Barrett facility is also planned to serve the interconnection point for the Empire Wind offshore wind farm project, after then-State Senator Todd Kaminsky and Island Park Mayor Michael McGinty lobbied for the connection to be moved from the originally planned Gowanus Substation in Brooklyn. [9] The facility occupies around 127 acres. [8]
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of New York, sorted by type and name.A more complete list can be found on the NYISO website in the planning data and reference docs section where an annual report call the Load and Capacity Data Report, or the "Gold Book" is listed.
South Fork Wind Farm is a utility-scale offshore wind farm on the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore Rhode Island, providing energy to New York state. [5]The 130 MW, 12-turbine wind is 16.6 nautical miles (30.7 km; 19.1 mi) southeast of Rhode Island's Block Island and 26 nautical miles (48 km; 30 mi) east of Montauk Point on the South Fork of New York's Long Island.
The future of energy in America may be blowing in the wind. Wind power currently provides only about 10% of the country's electricity, mostly from the 70,000 land-based turbines in the U.S.
Empire Wind is a proposed utility-scale offshore wind farm on the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore New York. [2] It will be located in Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) lease area OCS-A 0512 (known as Hudson North) [3] [4] in the New York Bight about 15 miles (24 km) south of Jones Beach, Long Island.
In the United States, federal waters commence 3 nautical miles offshore. [12] The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management awarded leases for offshore wind sites in 2015. [13] NJWEA South is offshore Atlantic County and Cape May County, where the ocean floor is 100 ft (30 m) deep. [14]
The Kintigh Generating Station, also known as Somerset Operating Co. LLC of the Upstate New York Power Producers [1] was a 675-megawatt coal-fired power plant located in Somerset, New York, United States. The plant was owned by AES Corporation until bankruptcy. Its unit was launched into service in 1984. [2]