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The Federal Vitality Regulatory Fee (FERC) has executed the Giant Generator Interconnection Settlement (LGIA) between Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 undertaking, New York ISO and Consolidated Edison of New York, marking the primary FERC approval for an offshore wind undertaking to attach straight into the New York Metropolis transmission system.
FERC’s approval permits the undertaking to attach by means of the Sundown Park Onshore Substation at South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT) and into town electrical grid at Con Edison’s Gowanus substation, delivering an anticipated 810 MW.
The 73-acre South Brooklyn Marine Terminal is ready to rework right into a devoted port facility for offshore wind and can assist the staging and meeting of turbine elements for Empire Wind and different East Coast initiatives. It should additionally function the O&M hub for Empire Wind 1 in addition to the location of the undertaking’s onshore substation.
“The execution of the LGIA is a key milestone for Empire Wind and for New York Metropolis,” says Teddy Muhlfelder, vice chairman of Equinor Renewables Americas. “This federal approval marks the fruits of a years-long course of underneath NYISO and is one other vital step in permitting Equinor to advance a undertaking that may join offshore renewable energy to Brooklyn and into a whole bunch of hundreds of New York properties.”
SBMT is being redeveloped along with New York Metropolis Financial Improvement Company and terminal operator Sustainable South Brooklyn Marine Terminal, a three way partnership of Pink Hook Terminals and Business Metropolis.
