Connecticut picks Massachusetts energy company for significant offshore wind project based in Bridgeport
Connecticut has selected a Massachusetts company to develop a major wind power project that will significantly advance the state’s zero-emissions energy resources while using Bridgeport as a base to build out the new industry, environmental officials announced Thursday.
Vineyard Wind of New Bedford, Massachusetts, will provide 804 megawatts, sufficient to power 400,000 homes and representing 14% of the state’s electricity supply. Vineyard Wind will now negotiate 20-year contracts with the state’s electric utilities, Eversource and United Illuminating, and is expected to bring the project online in 2025.
Called the Park City Wind Project, it will more than double the amount of zero-carbon renewable energy procured by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
The project will make it possible for Connecticut to avoid emitting more than 25 million short tons of carbon dioxide while improving electric grid reliability in cold winter periods. It’s a critical feature that state officials say will “speed Connecticut’s transition away from reliance on natural gas power plants.”
The project also includes an estimated $890 million in direct economic development in Connecticut, including Bridgeport Harbor and the local supply chain. Vineyard Wind will be a partner in redeveloping an 18.3-acre waterfront industrial property in Bridgeport for steel fabrication and final outfitting.
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Vineyard Wind bid wins DEEP approval for Bridgeport project in wind power competition
“Today’s announcement takes Connecticut one step closer to being the epicenter of the new offshore wind industry, with thriving ports in both Bridgeport and New London,” said Lars Pedersen, CEO of Vineyard Wind, in a press release.
The Park City Wind project will now enter into negotiations with the state’s two electric utilities, The United Illuminating Company and Eversource Energy, for a contract with a 20-year term. The negotiated contracts will be subject to review and approval by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.
Vineyard Wind beat out two other bidders vying for the same contract from the state, which had a standing order for up to 2,000 megawatts of offshore wind energy.
This is the second large-scale contract Vineyard Wind secured in the past two years. The first was to build an 800-megawatt offshore wind farm for Massachusetts in 2018.
According to DEEP, the selection will more than double the amount of new zero-carbon renewable energy procured by DEEP to date. Vineyard Wind’s project is slated to provide roughly 14 percent of the state’s electricity supply.
“In this process, bidders really had to sharpen their pencils in order to come out in the winner circle,” said DEEP Commissioner Katie Dykes. “Park City Wind ranked highest on the whole complement of elements that we were prioritizing in this (request for proposals).”
That included a commitment to economic development for the state. The project is expected to go online in 2025 based on DEEP’s announcement and includes an estimated $890 million in direct economic development in Connecticut, including Bridgeport Harbor and the local supply chain.
The company wants to turn 18.3 acres of harborfront land in Bridgeport into an assembly hub f... that would be built south of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Beyond initial construction and usage of the site, Vineyard Wind plans to use the facility for future projects, including having the Bridgeport site serve as the operations and maintenance hub for its offshore turbines for the next 30 years, company officials said.
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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