The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved the large generator interconnection agreement executed between Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 project, New York ISO and Consolidated Edison Company of New York.
It is the first FERC approval for any offshore wind project to connect directly into the New York City transmission system and allows the project to connect through the Sunset Park onshore substation at South Brooklyn Marine Terminal into the New York City electrical grid at Con Edison’s Gowanus substation to deliver 810 MW of reliable renewable power.
Empire Wind 1 was selected as a provisional winner in New York’s fourth offshore wind solicitation and also received approval for its federal construction and operations plan from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. The New York Public Service Commission issued the project’s Article VII Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need in December 2023.
Empire Wind will help transform the South Brooklyn marine terminal into an offshore wind industry assembly facility and also an operations and maintenance base.
