Equinor
Equinor is an international energy company that aspires to be a leading company in the energy transition, and has become invested in America’s growing offshore wind industry.
Equinor and bp have created a fund to help pay for workforce development and support community-empowerment aspects of New York’s nascent offshore wind industry.
Ben Schumin, CC BY-SA-2.0, via Wikimedia
Rebuffed on its repowering plans, NRG Energy will demolish its 558-MW Astoria peaker plant in New York City and sell the site to an offshore wind developer.
A marine acoustic study underway in the Empire Wind project lease area will be extended through 2028.
The California Energy Commission said it will take more time to consider offshore wind targets that stakeholders said were too low based on potential capacity.
Lawmakers, regulators, agency administrators and power producers explored the clean energy transformation in New York at IPPNY's 36th annual Spring Conference.
At a California Energy Commission workshop Wednesday, advocates of offshore wind urged state officials to plan for far more wind than is currently contemplated.
The first offshore transmission project in New York will run from Empire Wind 1 right under Brooklyn streets — and drew no comment from local residents.
Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Kathleen Theoharides said that forward momentum on new lease areas “is a great exciting announcement."
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a 15-year, $191 million plan to make the city a manufacturing and staging center for the offshore wind industry.
Offshore wind developers said empathy for communities and ocean users is the key to winning stakeholder support of their projects.
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