In the rush to save New York’s offshore industry from collapse last fall, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration bet big on three new wind farms — and even bigger on General Electric, a blue ...

New York’s first two offshore wind projects yielded energy certificates that utility companies buy from NYSERDA to source electricity from renewable sources.

Stripping hundreds of millions of dollars from renewable energy and efficiency initiatives is part of a broader move to undo ...

Offshore wind developers for New York’s first NYSERDA-contracted projects also sought higher payments. Equinor and BP requested increases for their Empire Wind 1 and 2 and Beacon Wind.

Community Offshore Wind, a partnership between Essen, Germany-based RWE and New York-based National Grid, on Friday proposed a wind farm that would generate 2.8 gigawatts of electricity, or enough ...

New York has more offshore wind projects in the works than any other state, according to the state authority that oversees them. But its ambitious plans and most of the jobs they would create ...

EDPR’s New York wind farms produce enough clean electricity to power more than 298,000 New York homes. Amy Kurt, senior manager of regional government affairs for EDP, ...

New York officials on Tuesday said the state has awarded conditional contracts to three offshore wind projects as part of a massive renewable energy procurement that will provide 12% of the state ...

Still, environmentalists are hopeful that the time has come for New York-sourced wind energy to make its debut in the national market. South Fork Wind, a Long Island-based project a decade in the ...

It’ll also connect New York City to Empire Wind 1, one of the nation’s first large-scale wind farms to be built around 15 miles off the coast of Long Island.

A wind farm at the New York Bight is expected to produce 5.6 to 7 gigawatts–that's enough to power more than 1.9 million homes.

Offshore wind is four times more expensive than New York’s average wholesale electricity price. Nor is it reliable — wind generation requires 24/7 backup from fossil fuel or nuclear power plants.