In addition to the state-owned NYPA and LIPA, the wind group includes New York City's power company Consolidated Edison Inc (ED.N), the City of New York, and other state and city government agencies. Industry sources estimate it would cost about $4 million per megawatt to build wind turbines offshore versus less than $2 million a megawatt on shore. offshore wind farms under development, see FACTBOX The Long Island Power Authority, one of the members of the wind group, killed plans to build a 140-MW offshore wind farm in 2007 because the project's cost estimates soared to about $811 million from an initial bid of about $356 million. There are currently no offshore wind farms in the United States in part because it costs about twice as much to build offshore than on land.
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The company estimated the cost just to upgrade the transmission system to support a wind farm alone would cost about $415 million for a 350-MW project, or $821 million for a 700-MW project, NYPA spokeswoman Connie Cullen told Reuters in an email. NYPA said the proposed wind farm would help the city and state meet tough renewable energy goals and reduce carbon emissions in its fight against global warming, but could not say how much the project would cost.
The wind group wants to build a 350 to 700 megawatt wind farm by 2016, the NYPA, which would hold the lease, said in a release. The New York Power Authority on Wednesday said it would apply with federal regulators for a lease to build one of the nation's first offshore wind power projects in the Atlantic Ocean, off Long Island.
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