Massachusetts’ Newest Way To Use Ocean Wind

Deepwater Wind, National Grid Ventures, FirstLight Power Resources Partner to Deliver New Vision for “Baseload” Offshore Wind; First-of-its-Kind Offering Allows Massachusetts to Use Offshore Wind to Replace Retiring Fossil-Fired Power Plants

December 20, 2017 (Deepwater Wind via Renewables Now)

“Deepwater Wind will propose to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts an innovative offshore wind solution that, for the first time, will allow a utility-scale renewable energy project to replace the retiring fossil fuel-fired power plants closing across the region…[It will pair its Revolution Wind offshore wind farm] with a first-of-its-kind offshore transmission backbone developed in partnership with National Grid…[and will] be capable of delivering clean energy to Massachusetts utilities when it’s needed most, during peak hours of demand on the regional electric grid…Deepwater Wind previously proposed an initial 144 megawatt phase of Revolution Wind…[but it] could be built at various sizes up to 400 MW in its first phase…By partnering with the storage capability of the largest hydroelectric pumped storage facility in New England – the Northfield Mountain pumped-hydroelectric station…offshore wind can act like a baseload resource…[and allow the Commonwealth to] meet its energy demands by storing and dispatching offshore energy when and where it’s needed most…” click here for more

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