Potential Offshore Wind Transmission Cable Routes Outside the Massachusetts Ocean Management Planning Area
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- Originator: Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
- Publication_Date: 20150106
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Potential Offshore Wind Transmission Cable Routes Outside the Massachusetts Ocean Management Planning Area
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Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
- Publication_Date: 20150106
- Title: 2015 Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan
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These data represent potential offshore wind transmission cable routes outside the Massachusetts Ocean Management Planning Area mapped in the 2015 Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan. One of the goals of the 2015 ocean plan was to advance the planning and siting of offshore wind energy transmission corridor(s) to bring renewable energy from the projects in federal waters across state waters to landside grid tie-in location(s). Significant work went into the planning and identification of appropriate potential transmission corridor routes for the 2015 ocean plan, including a compatibility assessment, screening analysis, and optimization tool. The transmission corridor routes in the planning area identified through that process will be the focus of additional characterization, investigation, and assessment work, synchronized with the next stages in the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) process, including leasing, site assessment, and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analysis. In the first part of the siting method, the lease areas within the Massachusetts Wind Energy Area (WEA) and Rhode Island/ Massachusetts WEA, as delineated by BOEM, were used as the areas of origin, and the Canal Substation in Sandwich was identified as the target top-tier substation destination. Through the compatibility assessment and screening analysis, areas to avoid and areas of concern were identified based on potential biological and physical environmental impacts, incompatibilities, limitations and specifications of transmission cable installation operations, and/or adverse interactions with existing uses and sites to avoid. The optimization analysis then generated routes in the planning area that would steer clear of the areas to avoid while minimizing cable distance. Because there is a lot of uncertainty about where a cable would exit the WEAs, these data represent the general locations of potential cable routes outside the planning area.
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These data were used in the development of the 2015 Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan.
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The Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan protects critical marine habitat and important water-dependent uses and sets standards for new ocean-based development. In response to the Oceans Act of 2008, the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) issued the original ocean plan in December 2009. The Oceans Act requires EEA to review and update the ocean plan at least once every five years. The 2015 Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan, released on January 6, 2015, is the first formal amendment to the 2009 ocean plan. These data were produced to support the development of the 2015 ocean plan.
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Public domain data from the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM), an agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA), are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management as the source of these data. You are not permitted to use CZM's name or to suggest that CZM endorses your project or product, without its express written consent. While efforts have been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable within the state of the art, CZM cannot assume liability for any damages or misrepresentation caused by any inaccuracies in the data or as a result of changes to the data caused by system transfers. The user must be aware of data conditions and bear responsibility for the appropriate use of these data with respect to possible errors, original map scale, collection methodology, currency of data, and other conditions specific to these data. NOAA mandated language per federal Data Quality Act (DQA): These environmental data and related items of information have not been formally disseminated by NOAA and do not represent and should not be construed to represent any agency determination, view, or policy.
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These data represent the general locations of potential cable routes outside the planning area. Because there is a lot of uncertainty about where a cable would exit the WEAs, there are many other potential cable routes from the WEAs to Massachusetts waters.
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Mapped the general locations of potential cable routes outside the planning area by drawing lines from the northern, exterior lines of the MA WEA and RI/MA WEA to the preliminary areas for offshore wind transmission cable corridors in the planning area and to the Brayton Point Substation in Somerset.
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