Over the next 10 years, an estimated 25 gigawatts of offshore wind could be added in several US regions, potentially knocking out more than 4 billion cubic feet per day of gas demand. The key area of growth is the East Coast - where wind is particularly strong and steady during peak winter hours - with 80% of new wind capacity planned offshore New York state and New England through 2026, according to a new analysis by Wood Mackenzie. "In the Northeast there is not a lot of growing demand, so the idea is to displace gas burn ... whether that means that plants retire or that they just change roles to more of a sometimes generator or a peaker rather than being baseload," US Offshore Wind Outlook 2020-2029 author Max Cohen told Energy Intelligence.
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