Offshore wind has a problem: electrical transmission:
about how they can take advantage of federal dollars to plan and build some sort of offshore transmission system.
That's because building new transmission infrastructure in New England is incredibly challenging. There’s not a lot of open space, and people don’t like to see new wires. The inability to build transmission lines has already delayed or killed several renewable energy projects in the region — look no further than theIt's difficult to build transmission infrastructure on land in New England.
An ocean grid could also reduce how much cable needs to be buried beneath the ocean floor. In the current project-by-project approach, most wind developers are planning to use cables that can each carry about 400 megawatts of electricity — an 800 megawatt wind project requires two cables, for instance.
In a "meshed" offshore transmission system, the offshore collector platforms are connected . And in a "backbone" transmission system, all of the offshore projects are connected and there are fewer landing sites. In reality, the Atlantic offshore transmission system of the future will likely include elements from all of these scenarios. about these lines becoming unburied and getting caught in trawl lines.
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