Anbaric's Juno Power Express a 'head start' for New York Bight offshore wind partners

Renewable energy grid developer Anbaric is seeking to partner with leaseholders in the New York Bight on the state’s upcoming offshore wind-related transmission projects, the company announced Thursday.

Anbaric aims to leverage its proposed Juno Power Express power line on the Long Island coast, which includes a 7.6 mile (12km) submarine cable route and an 18-mile (30km) onshore pathway leading to existing transmission infrastructure, to tie future wind projects to New York’s electricity grid.

“Anbaric’s Juno Power Express offers New York Bight offshore wind developers a significant head-start on interconnection and transmission for up to 1,200MW of interconnection capacity,” said Janice Fuller, president of Anbaric, mid-Atlantic.

The tender stipulates that project proposals include a 1.2GW “mesh-ready” transmission component that would enable more efficient integration into the onshore grid.

The Juno site is near to a Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) substation and grid-related infrastructure and is “well suited for the construction of a converter station which will provide up to 1.2GW of firm delivery capacity via a high voltage direct current (HVDC) system”, according to the company.

Moreover, Anbaric has already submitted an application into New York’s Article VII major transmission certification process for the Juno site, a permitting milestone for the project which positions it for speedier approval and delivery.

The New York Bight lease sale held last February set records, with six leases sprawling across 488,000-acres of shallow waters south of New York’s Long Island and east of New Jersey holding some 6GW at least of capacity selling for $4.37bn.