New York’s Offshore Wind Projects:
The Future is Today
New York is poised to be a leader in offshore wind. In 2019, NY passed the nation’s most aggressive climate bill, which mandates 70% renewable energy by 2030 and 9,000MW of offshore wind by 2035. To meet these ambitious goals, New York is moving forward with a series of wind farms off the coast of Long Island. In the second of three virtual forums (via zoom), offshore wind developers Orsted and Equinor will discuss the offshore wind projects they are building off Long Island.
Equinor is developing the Empire Wind Farm off the coast of Long Beach, which will deliver 816 MW of renewable energy to NY. Equinor was also recently selected to build two additional projects—Empire Wind 2, which will be 20 miles off the south shore of Long Island; and Beacon Wind, 50 miles off of Montauk.
Orsted is building New York’s first offshore wind project, the South Fork Wind Farm, sited 35 miles off Montauk, as well as Sunrise Wind, which will be off Suffolk County and will deliver 880MW of power to Long Island.
Join us to learn more about these critical projects, which combined will power more than 2.4 million homes and bring us almost halfway to our goal of 9,000 MW of offshore wind in NY State.
After the presentations there will be a question and answer session with our speakers and moderator Adrienne Esposito, CCE’s Executive Director.
Topic: New York Offshore Wind Projects
Date: Monday, February 8, 2021
Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Register now (after registering, you will receive a zoom link to participate)
This is the second of three offshore wind forums. The next installment in our series, “Offshore Wind and Community Benefits” will be held in March. Date TBA.
Thank you for joining us!
Sincerely,
Your friends at CCE
