The consortium will primarily provide guidance and develop best practices for the Northeast States Collaborative on Interregional Transmission to promote efficient interconnection of projects that may be built by different vendors using equipment from various manufacturers across numerous time zones.
The work involves developing ideas to inform near-term and future-state offshore wind solicitation processes and, while focused on the Atlantic region, it is expected to benefit the US offshore wind industry as a whole and may inform future state action across coastal regions, according to GDO.
“Offshore wind energy is already powering more than 100,000 homes along the east coast, with the potential to grow, while enhancing grid reliability”, said Maria Robinson , Director, Grid Deployment Office, US Department of Energy. “We are working to accelerate offshore wind deployment as quickly and safely as possible. Standardizing transmission equipment used to connect offshore wind projects will give us a huge head start in bringing these systems online faster.”
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