Rise Gentle & Energy LLC, which plans a renewable repowering of New York Metropolis’s largest fossil-fuel energy plant, is on the brink of submit on Thursday a proposal as a part of New York State’s third offshore wind solicitation.
A press assertion launched on Tuesday says that the Queens-based power asset supervisor and developer, a unit of LS Energy, has secured an possession stake in an offshore wind venture aiming to ship 1.3 GW of unpolluted power. It states that this “will be an integral part” of a proposal to be filed with the New York State Power Analysis and Improvement Authority (NYSERDA) on January 26 – the proposal submission deadline for the aggressive offshore wind solicitation launched final summer time.
The announcement was made at an occasion attended by congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, and senators Kristen Gonzalez and Liz Krueger.
Rise is the proprietor and operator of the two,050-MW Ravenswood Producing Station in Lengthy Island Metropolis, Queens. In July 2022, the corporate offered its imaginative and prescient for remodeling the 27-acre waterfront industrial website right into a clear power hub and later filed for approval of a submarine electrical system venture generally known as the Queensboro Renewable Categorical. By means of it, the corporate seeks to ship offshore wind energy to Ravenswood.
Extra particularly, by way of an prolonged utility, Rise is in search of clearance to attach one among two 1,310-MW circuits of the Queensboro Renewable Categorical to an offshore wind farm, which might end result within the retirement of one of many plant’s Nineteen Sixties-era fossil gas mills. That is along with the five hundred MW of peakers which can be already being retired at Ravenswood.
The venture will depend on current power infrastructure on the website but in addition entails the creation of an offshore wind operations and upkeep (O&M) hub there. Furthermore, coaching programmes are deliberate for Ravenswood’s union workforce.
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