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! XI. Other Considerations ! Future Potential Offshore Wind Projects Serving Downstate Deepwater has identified promising areas in the New York Bight where utility-scale offshore wind farms combined with HVDC transmission networks similar in concept to DWEC-NELI would be suitable. Projects located in this area will be well positioned to serve the growing demand of the larger Zone J market as well the load pockets in western Long Island and even northern New Jersey. And, waterfront sites with good port facilities exist in New York Harbor that could eventually be utilized for the development of new offshore wind activities. However, since the waters of the New York Bight have not yet undergone the same rigorous survey, baseline data collection, and stakeholder engagement process as those east of Long Island any wind farm located in this area will likely have a commercial operations date that is at least two years behind that of DWEC- NELI. Deepwater’s strategy is to pursue the development of a second project located in the New York Bight by taking advantage of its later commercial operation date to apply the “lessons learned” from its 30 MW Block Island demonstration project (COD of 2013- 2014) and the DWEC project (COD of 2017-2018). This longer timeline will also allow for a more gradual expansion of the region’s offshore wind industry labor force, support services, and supply chain. To this end, for the last several years, Deepwater has been actively developing a second project to be located in the New York Bight southeast of New York City that includes a utility-scale offshore wind plant, Hudson Canyon Wind Farm (HCWF), combined with an offshore transmission network, Submarine Regional Transmission line (SMRT Line), that is designed to primarily supply Zone J. Deepwater’s New York Bight project will supply energy, capacity, wind farm environmental attributes, and firm transmission capacity to Zone J. The 900 MW Wind Plant would deliver power to the SMRT Line offshore substation and the first power generated, up to the 550 MW capacity of SMRT Line, will be transmitted to Zone J. During periods when the output of HCWF is greater than 550 MW, the additional power will be delivered to PJM East. During hours when the energy output of HCWF is less than 550 MW, Zone J will have the ability to import power from PJM over the remaining capacity on SMRT Line resulting in 550 MW of firm power for Zone J. ! 29
! ! Project Benefits Deepwater’s NY Bight project would produce a number of reliability benefits similar to those created by DWEC-NELI resulting from new capacity in Zone J, the creation of a new interconnection to a neighboring energy market, and increased fuel diversity. To confirm the specific market price suppression and emission reduction benefits of this NY Bight project, Deepwater commissioned a study by CRA of the impacts on both the New York and New Jersey electric systems. CRA estimated the price suppression benefits to be substantial and of the same order of magnitude as those created by the DWEC project. Additionally, this NY Bight project would result in approximately 10 million tons of CO2 emissions reduction and 6,000 tons of NOx emissions reductions in New York State. CRA also modeled the impacts of the Project on the PJM system and found that as a result of the injection of peak period power from the Wind Plant New Jersey would benefit from an annual net reduction in average wholesale prices as well as a net reduction in emissions. The net reduction in emissions is due in part to the injections from the Wind Plant but also to the relatively more efficient and lower emitting natural gas plants that would be dispatched when PJM system power was being exported to Zone J. ! 30
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