Transmission developer Anbaric says “opening up competition” for grid links is critical to facilitate offshore wind on the US east coast at least cost. According to Kevin Knobloch, president of Anbaric’s proposed New York OceanGrid system, dealing with transmission separately to offshore wind generation and allowing competition will “yield both the best ideas and lowest…Read More

Offshore wind turbines rely on ever longer composite blades — Siemens Gamesa’s 10+ MW turbine blades stretch to 94 meters and GE’s Heliade-X span 107 meters — to generate clean, renewable energy. Three different states recently announced their progress toward gigawatt grids to help combat climate change and fossil fuel jobs loss. California With deep waters and some of…Read More

The Atlantic Wind Connection was a visionary project when it was born eight years ago. The fairest and most efficient way to deliver electricity from future wind power clusters off the Atlantic coast would be to build a 250-mile-long network of buried high-voltage transmission lines connected at a few strategic points to the onshore power…Read More