Wind Power Lines Being Eyed In New England, New York

摘要

A consortium of New England utilities is considering building a major new power line to bring promising wind energy resources in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont to down-state markets, and a similar wind-oriented transmission project is under discussion for northern New York by National Grid and the New York Power Authority, the head of National Grid USA says.rnTom King, president of U.S. operations for UK-based National Grid, told The Energy Daily in an interview Friday that both the New England and New York initiatives are still in preliminary stages, but that talks are accelerating among utilities and states in the Northeast about cooperating on grid expansion to bring on-shore and offshore wind resources to electricity-hungry urban areas in the region.