Wind Power | Garden State Offshore Energy
PSEG Renewable Generation and Winergy Power Holdings announced today that they have submitted a proposal to the New Jersey Office of Clean Energy (OCE) to build a 350 megawatt wind farm about 16 miles off the shore of South Jersey. The proposal estimates that the offshore wind farm will cost around $1 billion.
The details of the Garden State Offshore Energy proposal involve 96 wind turbines that would be arranged in a rectangular grid 16 miles off the New Jersey shore. The intention is to situate the wind farm far enough offshore as to make it virtually invisible yet close enough so that transmission costs will not prove to be completely inhibitive. The targeted completion date is 2013.
Should the joint venture proposal be chosen by the OCE they will then be required to conduct full feasibility and environmental studies.
A full copy of the Garden State Offshore Energy proposal press release is available.
To read about more wind power developments, visit the Wind Power page.
October 18th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Offshore wind power farms makes great sense, particularly if they can be located economically into deep water out of shore view and avoid extensive sprawl.
The firm ENECO Texas LLC has developed a breakthrough modular advanced wind power technology, the Wind Amplifier Rotor Platform (WARP) system design, which has these and other desired requisite characteristics. Patented in over 20 countries world-wide, it is being offered under license to firms who are qualified technically and/or financially.
WARP technology is a modular multi-use, wind amplifying system that incorporates small commodity rotors/turbines (for example in the approximately 6 ft to 20 ft. diameter range) that are integral with WARP wind amplifier modules which are arrayed vertically on a simple core support tower. The size of the WARP rotors and the height of WARP towers can be designed to maximize power capacity.
Key features and benefits of the WARP design are:
1. Projected to cost only about two-thirds (2/3) of what it costs to design and produce conventional big-bladed wind turbines;
2. Using less than 20 ft. diameter rotors, it may have over 10 MW to 20 MW and higher unit power capacity without the risk and cost of large dynamic components;
3. Uses over 75% less sea-surface area for wind farms with WARP unit capacity equal to conventional wind turbines (even less when larger WARP units are employed)
4. Can be economically deployed in any water depth site, and out of shore view, avoiding NIMBY.
Please feel free to contact me for further information.