US-Canada shared offshore wind backbone 'could save almost $800m' - Recharge
US-Canada shared offshore wind backbone 'could save almost $800m' | Recharge
While the US vision for offshore wind culminates in the vast reaches of the Gulf of Maine, a cross-border coalition of energy and transmission developers and suppliers is urging the nation to look even farther afield, to the windy sweeps of coastal Nova Scotia, Canada.
The New England-Maritimes Offshore Energy Corridor (NEMOEC) coalition released its white paper today, A New England - Maritimes Offshore Energy Corridor Builds Regional Resilience for a Clean Energy Future, in which it urges development of an offshore ‘backbone grid’ of 525kV high voltage direct current (HVDC) off the Atlantic coasts of both countries.
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Decades of government support for the development of wind energy has resulted in lower costs and a rapidly growing share of electricity generated by wind turbines. Wind in 2019 accounted for 7.3 percent of electrical generation, surpassing for the first time hydropower at 7.0 percent.