It is actually about the onshore transmission of offshore wind power, not offshore transmission.
The urgency is that the present power system cannot handle all that offshore juice coming ashore.
...The existing transmission system was not designed to handle this enormous power flow, coming from a new direction, so it won’t.
Hence the “urgency” referenced in the title of the report.
...52,000 MW is something like $200 billion in
- new generating capacity,
- none of which is needed,
- so somebody’s power bills are going way up.
- One of the urgent things they want FERC to do is spread the cost around.
No surprise there.
The reason FERC is referred to 92 times is that they want the electric power system rebuilt, physically and contractually, to handle this stampede of new, unneeded, intermittent generation...
The reason FERC is referred to 92 times is that they want the electric power system rebuilt, physically and contractually, to handle this stampede of new, unneeded, intermittent generation...
- Of particular interest is that the lead sponsor of this study is the Natural Resources Defense Council or NRDC. They are, or used to be, one of America’s biggest environmental advocacy outfits. Now they are “environmental industrialists” a living oxymoron. They want to rebuild the global power system in the name of environmental protection. Surely this is mindless madness...
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