Among proposals submitted to NYSERDA is one that might see New York City’s largest energy era plant, Ravenswood, switched from fossil gasoline to offshore wind. [Image: Rise Light & Power]
International vitality majors and regional gamers have misplaced none of their urge for food to provide New York State with offshore wind generated renewable vitality. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) stories that the state’s third offshore wind solicitation drew greater than 100 whole proposals for eight new initiatives from six offshore wind builders.
Responders to the solicitation included the Ørsted/Eversource, and Equinor/BP partnerships, Community Offshore Wind (a three way partnership RWE Renewables and National Grid), Leading Light Wind (a partnership between Chicago primarily based Invenergy and New York City headquartered energyRe) and Rise Light & Power.
Community Offshore Wind and Leading Light Wind have been each winners of lease areas within the New York Bight within the February 2022 BOEM lease public sale.
In releases from these corporations, all make guarantees of making jobs on a powerful scale and investing closely in provide chain and shoreside infrastructures.
FOSSIL-FIRED PLANT COULD BE REPOWERED
Rise Light & Power owns the Ravenswood Generating Station, New York City’s largest energy era facility. Its proposal to NYSERDA relies on repowering that fossil-fuel plant with clear energy from offshore wind. That would transition Ravenswood right into a clear vitality hub with a mature and cost-effective interconnection of renewable offshore wind vitality into New York City.
In late 2022, Rise submitted an software requesting that the New York State Public Service Commission approve a submarine electrical system – the Queensboro Renewable Express – to ship offshore wind vitality over transmission in New York State to Ravenswood.
Rise has now acquired an possession stake in an, as but undisclosed, offshore wind undertaking and its proposal to NYSERDA would join one of many two Queensboro Renewable Express 1,310 MW circuits to an offshore wind farm, which might lead on to the retirement of one of many plant’s Nineteen Sixties period fossil gasoline turbines.
NYSERDA says the general public model of the submitted proposals will probably be published on its website “soon.” At that time some laborious info about who’s providing precisely what might emerge.
Following analysis interval, NYSERDA expects to announce the awards in spring 2023.
