Here is a link to a just-released report from the University of Delaware’s Center for Carbon-free Power Integration, College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment.
From the report:
The results of this study indicate that Maryland’s offshore wind resource is large enough to supply the state with 67% of its electric needs, even if using only existing offshore wind power technology (monopile, <35m). Offshore wind could provide 179% of its electric needs as the industry matures and deeper water technologies become commercialized. The resource is large enough to not only satisfy all of Maryland’s demand for electricity, but part or all of the demand in neighboring inland states as well.
And:
Building out Maryland’s offshore wind potential could benefit the state’s economy for offshore construction, maintenance, supply chain, and/or turbine manufacturing. Each aspect represents a separate opportunity; including turbine installation, and operations and maintenance facilities, which need to be located near the project. Also, with manufacturing anywhere in the region, some sourcing of turbine components would likely be from Maryland’s manufacturing sector. In contrast, continuing to buy fossil electricity from the market, delivered from distant fossil power plants, will not meet environmental goals and is unlikely to have any beneficial effect on the Maryland economy. Moreover, the Delaware Bluewater Wind Project bid and power purchase agreement suggests that large‐scale offshore wind projects can be cost competitive with new fossil fuel generation after accounting for future fossil fuel prices, likely costs to emit carbon into the atmosphere, and other factors.
So if Maryland is exporting power, what would happen to PJM’s projected NERC violations? Where is Project Mountaineer’s west to east electricity flow? Where is PATH?
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