Offshore-Wind-Energy-Strategies-Report 56

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Department of Energy | January 2022

existing uses of the ocean and the needs of coastal communities. Innovation, cost
reductions, and domestic supply capabilities are needed in high-voltage direct current
technology to enable development farther from shore. There is a lack of sufficient
onshore transmission capacity to transmit power from the strongest offshore wind
resources to load centers. Offshore wind energy developers, RTOs or ISOs, and other
stakeholders are already assessing the limited, existing onshore points of
interconnection and seeking coordination from the Federal Government on
transmission expansion. Creating incentives to plan and share transmission across
multiple offshore wind projects, states, and transmission planning regions can
encourage collaboration in infrastructure planning, cost allocation, and transmission
system development that can benefit all states within and across regions. Renewable
fuels can provide energy storage and clean fuel for applications that are difficult to
electrify directly.

With a range of participants acting and collaborating on policy, investment, technology


advancement, analysis, and standards development, these strategic priorities can all be
achieved. Doing so would help attract investments in the U.S. supply chain that would create
new job opportunities; make offshore wind energy more cost competitive with other electricity
generation sources in U.S. coastal energy markets; and reduce regulatory, construction, and
economic uncertainty that currently impedes industry growth.

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