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Internet of things will empower the wind energy power plants
İnternet of Things Will Empower the Wind Energy Power Plants
Industry is uniquely positioned to tap into a potential radical change of the dominant geographical market scope of industry. Due to the cost optimization, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) will fundamentally change business models. A vision of tomorrow’s industry: global production methods evolve into innovative way that industry work with harmonization of future-oriented Technologies which is lead machines to interact with embedded hardware and software beyond the limits of single applications via Internet of things (IoT). For wind it provides clean, renewable energy. The core concept is simple: wind turbines spin blades to generate power. However, today’s systems are anything but simple. Modern wind turbines have blades that sweep a 120 meter circle, cost more than 1 million dollars and generate multiple megawatts of power. Each turbine may include up to 1,000 sensors and actuators – integrating strain gages, bearing monitors and power conditioning technology. The turbine can control blade speed and power generation by altering the blade pitch and power extraction. Controlling the turbine is a sophisticated job requiring many cooperating processors closing high-speed loops and implementing intelligent monitoring and optimization algorithms. But the real challenge is integrating these turbines so that they work together. A wind farm may include hundreds of turbines. They are often installed in difficult-to-access locations at sea. The farm must implement a fundamentally and truly distributed control system. Like all power systems, the goal of the farm is to match generation to load. A farm with hundreds of turbines must optimize that load by balancing the loading and generation across a wide geography. Wind, of course, is dynamic. Almost every picture of a wind farm shows a calm sea and a setting sun. But things get challenging when a storm goes through the wind farm. In a storm, the control system must decide how to take energy out of gusts to generate constant power. It must intelligently balance load across many turbines. And a critical consideration is the loading and potential damage to a half-billion-dollar installed asset. This is no environment for a slow or undependable control system. Reliability and performance are crucial.
Introduction
Today’s market is characterized by demand volatility, individualized products and increasing competition due to globalization [1]. Key for companies to successfully compete in this dynamic and competitive environment is to continuously strive towards higher levels of productivity, which is particularly essential for companies producing in high-wage countries[2]. While productivity can simply be defined as the ratio between input and output, the underlying drivers behind productivity growth are manifold and include external elements, such as technology, the environment companies operate in, government regulation and competition, as well as internal elements, e.g. production processes, human capital and management [3, 4].
A new generation of computers made it possible to handle extensive calculations. This development is supported by Moore’s law which describes how to amount of operations doubles every two years and how simultaneously these operations become more affordable [5].
To get the full benefit of global production, companies must adopt an integrated perspective that extends across the value chain and covers multiple input factors from labor costs and productivity, materials, energy, and logistics through to customs, taxes, and exchange rates. Changes to product design and process technology should also be explored. As these elements can dramatically alter the economics, companies also need a new quantitative approach that does justice to the many factors involved.
1. The Coming Age of Cyber Physical Systems
The engineering research field of CPS has drawn a great deal of attention from academia, industry, and the government due to its potential benefits to society, economy, and the environment [6]. Computers were originally invented to perform compu- tation. The first computer, ENIAC, was constructed in 1946 to perform ballistic calculations [7]. In the 1990s, there began to appear much greater interest in the interaction between computational and physical systems [8]. Real-time computation researchings occured a problem that integrating the schedules due to the variable working sectors.
Around 2006, researchers, predominantly in real-time sys- tems, hybrid systems and control systems, coined the name “cyber-physical systems” to describe this increasingly impor- tant area at the interface of the cyber and the physical worlds.
There are several other paths also leading to this area of in- terest. From its origins as ARPANET [9] in 1969, the Internet developed into a worldwide network connecting computers. Around 1973 was the beginning of the cellular telephony revolution. Also around 1971 was developed the ALOHA network to interconnect users across the Hawaiian islands with a mainframe computer in Oahu [10]. Its pioneering ideas, concerning how to resolve contention of the shared wireless medium, were used in Ethernet as well as packet radio networks. In 1977 DARPA tested the PRNET packet radio network [11]. In 1978, the U.S. Army deployed the SINCGARS (Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio Sys- tem) packet radio system [12]. Subsequently in 1997, the IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi standard was developed and proliferated across offices and homes after the introduction of IEEE 802.11b [13]. All this, including the landline telephone network, have led to a communication revolution. The goal of interconnecting computers to form a communication network has played a central role in ALOHA, the Internet and Wi-Fi. Thus we see here the convergence of communication and computation.
The appropriate framework was the frequency domain approach, developed by Nyquist [14], Bode [15], Evans [16], and others. This also led to CPSs – though based on analog computation. One can regard Ziegler-Nichols tuning rules [17], for example, as methods to adjust the overall CPS to achieve desired behavior. Already, by 1954, there was beginning to emerge the second generation of control – digital control [18]. This was spawned by the development of the digital computer. Now simple calculations on algorithms could be performed on the measured signals before closing the loops. This too required a theoretical framework, the appropriate one in this case was the state-space approach. This was developed by Bellman [19], Pontryagin [20], Kalman [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], and others under the leadership of Solomon Lefschetz at the Martin Company’s Research Institute for Advanced Study in Baltimore which was founded in 1955. This led to a very strong foundation of systems theory, with a thorough investigation of optimal control [26], stability [27], linear systems [28], nonlinear control [29], stochastic systems [30], adaptive control [31], robust control [32], infinite dimensional systems [33], decentralized control of complex systems [34], discrete event systems [35], and even attempts at integrating automata theory and control [36].
All these trends – the convergence of several disciplines, the evolution of technology in various fields, and the increasing need to build large scale systems to meet the burgeoning societal needs in an environment of resource frugality – have led to great research interest in the issues sought to be captured by the phrase of cyber-physical systems [37].
2. Future Potential of Cyber Physical Systems
Among recent technologies, cyber-physical systems (CPS) is an ever-growing terminology representing the integration of computation and physical capabilities which has vast area of application in process control, medical devices, energy control, traffic control, aviation, advanced automated systems and smart structures [38]. Businesses or rather manufacturers of varying sizes and industry segments increasingly cooperate with each other and with service providers, telecommunication suppliers, and software producers, in order to merge their competences, which are eventually needed to construct and operate cross-industry product innovation [39].
Recently, big data becomes a buzzword on everyone’s tongue. It has been in data mining since human-generated content has been a boost to the social network. It has also been called the web 2.0 era since late 2004 [40]. Lots of research organizations and companies have devoted themselves to this new research topic, and most of them focus on social or commercial mining. This includes sales prediction, user relationship mining and clustering, recommendation systems, opinion mining, etc. [41-42]. However, this research focuses on ‘human-generated or human-related data’ instead of ‘machine- generated data or industrial data’, which may include machine controllers, sensors, manufacturing systems, etc.
Cyber-physical systems contribute to finding answers to key challenges of our society and are highly relevant for numerous industries and fields of application. Cyber-physical systems provide companies with support in process optimization and therefore also in cost and time saving, and they provide help in saving energy, thus reducing CO2 emissions. For private users, the benefits of cyber-physical systems are predominantly in a higher level of comfort, for example in assistance with mobility, in networked safety, in individual medical care and for older people in the field of assisted living. In the agendaCPS study, the following four fields of application – which have particular relevance for Germany – were investigated in detailed scenarios for the period up to 2025:
•Energy – cyber-physical systems for the smart grid
•Mobility – cyber-physical systems for networked mobility
•Health – cyber-physical systems for telemedicine and remote diagnosis
•Industry – cyber-physical systems for industry and automated production. [43]
3. Cyber Physical Systems Enables Collabration Productivity via Internet of Things (IoT)
CPS expanded and related each other to operate with cooperatively and interactively. The recent developments of an Internet of Things (IOT) framework and the emergence of sensing technology have created a unified information grid that tightly connects systems and humans together, which further populates a big data environment in the industry [44]. Cyber-physical systems interconnect the physical world with the world of information technology and can be referred to as the next general purpose technology that will enable a fourth industrial revolution [45]. The role of technology is being hailed as a major force for change which has radically transformed the nature of competitive strategy in several industries. In most cases their common ground is that they are motivated by the high potential of productivity growth that bears this transformation process.
However, the producing industry itself is responsible to initiate measures to profit from the social and technological change [46]. In order to do so, this paper proposes to create necessary preconditions in the production system. The required preconditions in a pro- duction system can be classified on two levels: The first level is the allocation to the cyber or the physical world and the second is the distinction between hard or soft component.
On the production side, the two major mechanisms are in- tegration and self-optimisation. Integration means a revolu- tionary short value chain. Through an improved information basis and decision-making ability more functions can be inte- grated and combined in one process step or person [47]. More- over collaboration enables more employees to work together in order to address challenges in different areas [48]. Self- optimisation means that one can improve beyond the theoreti- cal boundaries and therefore become better as expected. Cy- bernetic effects and structural changes of the system at the right time can change the parameters and framework condi- tions to constantly improve the production system [49].
Complete self-optimising production systems are theoreti- cally already possible [50]. Until now only their implementation fails as the enablers from section 2 are not yet established. Once selfoptimising production systems are working accurately they reduce the workload and efficiently work at the optimal operating point. With their high flexibility and reactivity they can adapt to sudden impacts or changes in the production process. Already existing self-learning machines can only reach the theoretically expected maximum. The advantage of self-optimising systems of the future is their aim for an even higher goal. In fact they are supposed to be con- structed in such a way that they surpass the previously expected efficiency. In order to enable such an efficient system, it is necessary to consider cybernetic effects. That means, the structural change of the system as a result of considering different boundary conditions enables new opening possibilities. This implies to approach sudden changes from a different perspective. They can be used to improve the system by ad- justing its structures and rules. An assembly line with a natively planned output of 20.000 units and an improved output of 25.000 units after one year using the same resources can serve as a theoretical example.
4. Opportunities For Cyber-Physical Systems
A grid with deep renewables, as represented by the dynamics in the scaled supply blend above, presents a family of CPS challenges and opportunities that go far beyond those in the grid in operation today. At core, the challenges arise from the shift from primarily modulated, dispatchable supply to primarily uncontrolled, non-dispatchable supply, and the resultant opportunities from the increased intelligence and communication needed to allow the energy network to function as a system. Here we explore some of the dominant CPS thrusts relative to the temporal dynamics of our year in a grid with deep renewables: the coordinated management of the entire portfolio, the potential to modulate (or dispatch) demand, the utilization of storage resources, and grid-driven demand reduction [51]. Ultimately, all of these aspects need to come together in a manner that addresses the additional level of fidelity associated with transmission constraints, plant dynamics, demand adjustment mechanisms, and markets.
Conclusion
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) will transform how humans interact with and control the physical world. Correct, affordable and flexible deployment of CPS can only be made possible by fundamental advances in science, engineering and education. CPS technologies must be scalable across time and space, and must deal with multiple time-scales, uncertainty, privacy concerns and security issues. A new CPS science will define new mathematical foundations with formalisms to specify, analyze, verify and validate systems that monitor and control physical objects and entities. Cyber-physical sensing systems and green communications put a new emphasis on the task of energy management for wireless communications and favor the use of energyharvesting technologies.
Without any questions, CPPS can be considered as an important step in the development of manufacturing systems. Whether this step would be regarded as the fourth industrial revolution will be decided by the coming generations, but certainly, this will happen with no zero probability.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank you my lecturer Asst.Prof.Dr. Melih S. Çeliktaş for his generous advice, inspiring guidance and encouragement throughout my research for his work.
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Amazon meets 100% renewable energy goal 7 years early
All of the electricity consumed by Amazon’s operations, including its data centers, was matched with 100% renewable energy in 2023.
x In 2019, we set a goal to match all of the electricity consumed across Amazon’s global operations—including our data centers, corporate buildings, grocery stores and fulfillment centers—with 100% renewable energy by 2030. Today, we’re proud to share that we’ve met that goal seven years ahead of schedule. To get there, we’ve become the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in the world for four years running, according to Bloomberg NEF, and have invested billions of dollars in more than 500 solar and wind projects globally, which together are capable of generating enough energy to power the equivalent of 7.6 million U.S. homes.
Achieving this goal is an important milestone in our efforts to meet our Climate Pledge commitment of net-zero carbon by 2040. Looking ahead, we remain as committed as ever to getting there, but the path is changing in ways that no one quite anticipated even just a few years ago – driven largely by the increasing demand for generative AI. This will require different sources of energy than we originally projected, so we’ll need to be nimble and continue evolving our approach as we work toward net-zero carbon.
While we’ll continue investing heavily to add substantial amounts of renewable energy to our portfolio, we’re also exploring new carbon-free energy sources that can complement renewables and balance our needs. We’ve known from the start that our path to net-zero would have many obstacles and need to be adjusted for changes to both our business and the world. Nevertheless, as with all of our long-term goals, we remain optimistic and focused on achieving them.
“Reaching our renewable energy goal is an incredible achievement, and we’re proud of the work we’ve done to get here, seven years early. We also know that this is just a moment in time, and our work to decarbonize our operations will not always be the same each year—we’ll continue to make progress, while also constantly evolving on our path to 2040,” said Amazon Chief Sustainability Officer Kara Hurst. “Our teams will remain ambitious, and continue to do what is right for our business, our customers, and the planet. That’s why we’ll continue investing in solar and wind projects, while also supporting other forms of carbon-free energy, like nuclear, battery storage, and emerging technologies that can help power our operations for decades to come.”
“By achieving its 100% renewable energy goal, Amazon has made it possible for hundreds of new solar and wind projects to be constructed, bringing new sources of clean energy to grids and communities around the world,” said Kyle Harrison, head of sustainability research at BloombergNEF. “Addressing climate change while balancing society’s skyrocketing energy demands is a massive challenge, and Amazon’s commitment to clean power demonstrates how a single company can help accelerate the transition to the low-carbon economy on a global scale.”
Here’s a look at just a few of our newest renewable energy projects around the world.
Amazon’s renewable energy highlight
Since 2019, we’ve enabled renewable energy projects in 27 countries. In fact, we were the first corporation to enable utility-scale renewable energy projects in India, Greece, South Africa, Japan, and Indonesia, among other countries. To accomplish this, Amazon worked with policymakers to enable first-of-their-kind policies to help corporations support the construction of new solar and wind projects in these countries. The use of renewable energy has also been incorporated across Amazon’s broader corporate footprint. Amazon’s HQ2 headquarters in Virginia was designed to run with zero operational carbon emissions, and its electricity consumption is matched by a local solar farm. In addition to utility-scale projects, we’ve also enabled almost 300 on-site solar projects on the rooftops and properties of Amazon fulfillment centers, Whole Foods Market stores, and other corporate buildings around the world. In total, Amazon’s renewable energy portfolio will help avoid an estimated 27.8 million tons of carbon per year once all projects are operational.
Launching Mississippi’s first wind farm, supporting local residents while helping power Amazon data centers
Operations recently began at Delta Wind, the first utility-scale wind farm in Mississippi, which is generating carbon-free energy to help power Amazon’s nearby operations, including future data centers. The project includes some of the tallest land-based wind turbines in the U.S., allowing the project to optimize energy production. The project is hosted on 14,000 acres of farmland owned by Abbot Myers, a third generation farmer who receives revenue from the project’s developer, AES. This has helped Myers purchase new farm equipment and expand his rice and soybean crops. Amazon also recently announced a first-of-its-kind deal with local Mississippi utility company Entergy to enable 650 megawatts (MW) of new renewable energy projects in the state over the next three years, and provides funding for future upgrades to local grid and energy infrastructure over the next two decades. Amazon is now poised to enable a total of 1.3 gigawatts (GW) of new renewable energy projects through a combination of new solar and wind farms being built across the state.
Enabling nearly 1.7 GW of offshore wind—more than any company in the World
Amazon is supporting nearly 1.7 GW of capacity across six offshore wind farms in Europe that, once fully operational, are expected to produce enough energy to power 1.8 million average European homes. These projects make Amazon the top corporate purchaser of offshore wind globally. Offshore wind is able to generate significant amounts of energy due to the consistent flow of ocean breezes, and has the potential to meet more than one-third of global power needs, according to the United Nations. Amazon is also working with developers focused on optimizing wind turbine technology, which helps maximize the amount of electricity produced. Last year, the Amazon-Shell HKN Offshore Wind Project, or HKN, became the first offshore wind farm enabled by Amazon to begin operations. The project spans two locations off the coast of the Netherlands, and boasts more than 750 MW of renewable energy capacity.
Growing renewable energy opportunities in the Asia Pacific region
Amazon has enabled more than 80 renewable energy projects across the Asia Pacific region to date, including 50 projects across India, and projects in countries including Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea. In Japan specifically, Amazon is announcing our first onshore wind farm and standalone utility-scale solar project—a 33 MW wind project located in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, as well as a 9.5 MW solar farm located in Kudamatsu, Yamaguchi Prefecture.Amazon is the largest corporate purchaser in Japan, with a total of 20 projects enabled to date. The projects include 14 onsite solar installations on rooftops of local Amazon buildings, and six offsite wind and solar projects.
While there has been a surge in solar projects in Japan, with solar accounting for nearly 10% of Japan’s energy mix in 2022, the mountainous terrain in the country covering over 70% of land has led to limited space to build large utility-scale energy projects. This is why aggregated solar projects—where many smaller, distributed projects are bundled into one larger power purchase agreement (PPA)—have worked well in Japan. In 2021, Amazon enabled the country’s first utility-scale aggregated solar project to be backed by a corporate PPA. Since then, we’ve engaged with Japanese industry groups and policy stakeholders to help expand corporate renewable energy procurement options in the country.
Modernizing the grid to deliver new carbon-free energy
An important part of Amazon’s renewable energy investments includes work to improve the grid, which needs to be modernized in order to deliver energy from new solar, wind and other carbon-free energy projects to users. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the world must add or replace 80 million kilometers of grids by 2040 to meet climate targets, and more than 1,500 GW of renewables projects are waiting in the queue globally. To help address this, teams across Amazon are engaging with energy regulators to find new ways to support grid modernization, remove permitting obstacles, and deploy grid enhancing technologies. We also co-founded the Emissions First Partnership, a coalition of energy purchasers focused on encouraging renewable energy investments in regions with grids that are primarily fueled by fossil fuel energy sources.
There are teams of Amazonians around the world working on projects like these every day because, with operations as broad and complex as ours, there’s no easy way or single path to get to net zero carbon. But we love taking on big challenges and we’re proud of the progress we’ve made so far.
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Global climate targets under threat without a secure wind energy supply chain
New report outlines route for global supply chain resilience and growth, based on industry and government cooperation
Bottlenecks in the global wind industry supply chain could leave the world with only three-quarters of the wind energy installations needed for a 1.5°C pathway by 2030, i.e. a 650 GW gap to meet climate targets. The supply chains in the wind sector for minerals, components and key enabling infrastructure like ports and platforms are not fit-for-purpose for a net zero world, where today’s global installed wind fleet must scale up by roughly three times by the end of the decade.
Solutions exist, but require stronger collaboration between government and industry, as well as among supply chain actors themselves, according to a new report “Mission Critical: Building the global wind energy supply chain for a 1.5°C world” from the Global Wind Energy Council, in partnership with Boston Consulting Group. The report assesses the implications for energy transition policy across four future macroeconomic scenarios by 2030, and how broader global developments like rising inflation and open-door trade versus increased trade barriers will impact the wind supply chain landscape, market size and sustainability of industry returns.
The first-of-its-kind comprehensive analysis across key components and materials in the sector finds that the wind supply chain is highly globalised, with a strong focus in China for rare earth element refining and component manufacturing in particular. A resetting of political priorities towards industrial resilience and security in many areas of the world, including Europe and the US, in addition to increasing market volatility, poses risks for creating a competitive and sufficiently scaledup global supply chain. Policy and regulatory issues around permitting, grids, investment certainty and localisation are also holding back volume in the wind pipeline, which could otherwise send positive demand signals for supply chains to scale.
“This is a watershed moment for getting trade and industrial policy in shape for a 1.5°C world. Wind energy will form the backbone of the future energy system based on renewables, but in order to enable a tripling of the world’s wind installations by 2030 we require a globalised, secure and competitive supply chain.Governments must work with the industry and the industry must work together to ensure the sector meets the enormous demand for clean and secure energy within this decade. Investment in supply chains has seen setbacks in many regions of the world, largely caused by challenges in policy, regulation and market design while industry itself needs to step up to the climate emergency by embracing standardisation with more global and modular technology design. Everyone has a role to play in this mission to create stronger and more resilient supply chains for the energy transition.”
Ben Backwell, Global Wind Energy Council CEO
“The wind industry manufacturing footprint must be able to do two very different things at the same time, deliver on the projected industry output (ramping up to 190 GW in 2030) and prepare to support the 1.5° transition which would require 70% more capacity (320 GW in 2030).”
Lars Holm, Partner and Director at BCG’s Centre for Energy Impact
The report explores the impact of four different macroeconomic scenarios, and how the wind industry can best navigate uncertainty and change in the global market. An ‘Open Door’ approach would yield the highest net positive impact in wind growth to reach climate goals, but the report anticipates the ‘Increased Barriers’ scenario as the most likely to materialise in this decade.
1)An Open Door scenario with growing regional collaboration on both supply and demand.
2)An Increased Barriers scenario where mar- kets increase trade barriers and turn attention towards domestic investment.
3)Economic Downturn where investments dry up and attention focuses towards low- cost rather than low-emission technology.
4)Global Escalation where increasing cross-border conflict reduces trade and shifts energy focus from decarbonisation towards availability.
The report outlines six key action areas that would set the conditions for large-scale wind supply chain growth and security:
- Address basic barriers to wind industry growth in land, grids and permitting to increase volume and predictability
- The wind industry must standardise and industrialise
- Regionalisation will be needed to support growth and resilience, while maintaining a globalised supply chain
- The market must provide clear and bankable demand signals
- Trade policy should aim to build competitive industries, not push higher costs onto end users
- Fundamental reform of the power market reform underpins further wind growth
Through a coordinated global effort from industry and policymakers, challenges in the global wind supply chain can be resolved over the course of this decade. Actions taken now in these six areas will help to foster a highly resilient and cost-efficient wind industry to decarbonise the world.
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TotalEnergies Awarded a 20-year Contract to Supply 1.3 GW+ of Renewable Electricity to New Jersey
TotalEnergies and its partner Corio Generation (Corio) announce that the State of New Jersey selected their Attentive Energy Two offshore wind project for a 20-year contract to supply 1.34 GW of renewable electricity to the state. The project will deliver renewable power to over 650,000 homes.
Attentive Energy Two, a joint venture between TotalEnergies (70%) and Corio (30%), received the award in the State’s third competitive OREC (Offshore Renewable Energy Credits) solicitation, organized by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU). The development of the project is expected to provide up to $105 million in community investments across the state, and the partners are aiming for commissioning in 2031.
The profitability of the project is ensured by the guaranteed level of OREC revenue, with a first year set price of $131 per MWh after the start of commercial operations, inflated yearly by 3%, and the benefit of a 30% IRA tax credit. The contract awarded by the NJBPU also includes a one-time inflation adjustment mechanism to compensate for changes in construction costs environment until the final investment decision.
“We are honored that the State of New Jersey chose Attentive Energy Two to deliver reliable green electricity to New Jersey residents while contributing to the local economy and offshore wind supply chain. This is another success for us in the US electricity business, following the provisional award in October 2023 of a 25-year supply contract by the State of New York to our Attentive Energy One project,” said Vincent Stoquart, Senior Vice President Renewables at TotalEnergies. “Both Attentive Energy One and Two will support our operations in the attractive US power market, where we are developing a portfolio of more than 25 GW of flexible and renewable projects. They will also help us achieve our profitability target for this business segment of 12% ROACE by 2028, as well as our ambition of delivering more than 100 TWh of power generation by 2030.”
“The award of this long-term contract is a great achievement for Attentive Energy and great news for the people of New Jersey,” said Jonathan Cole, CEO of Corio Generation. “The Attentive Energy Two project will deliver clean, green energy to hundreds of thousands of New Jersey residents and stimulate billions of dollars of regional investment.”
In February 2022, TotalEnergies secured maritime lease OCS-A 0538 at the New York Bight auction. It then partnered with New York-based electricity producer Rise and global offshore wind developer Corio to join forces in the development of the Attentive Energy offshore wind projects. In addition to the Attentive Energy Two project in New Jersey, the lease’s 3 GW capacity will serve the Attentive Energy One project in New York, which was provisionally awarded a 25-year contract to supply 1.4 GW of renewable electricity to New York in October 2023. These two projects aim to provide green electricity to more than a million homes across both states.
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