DWEC, which will act as a regional offshore wind energy center serving multiple states, will consist of 200 wind turbines with most of the turbines to be located 20 – 25 miles from shore and no turbine to be placed any closer than 13.8 miles from inhabited land.
Deepwater Wind also plans to develop a regional offshore transmission network, the New England-Long Island Interconnector that will connect DWEC to southern New England and eastern Long Island and will allow the wind farm to send power to multiple states in the region.
The company has filed a request to the governing authority to lease the ocean site where it intends to locate DWEC, and plans to begin construction on the project in 2014, with the first wind turbines expected to be operational by the end of 2015.
Deepwater Wind CEO William Moore said that the Deepwater Wind Energy Center is a major leap forward for the offshore wind industry as DWEC will be the first regional offshore wind energy center in the US, with a wind farm and a transmission system serving multiple markets.
