LONG ISLAND - Long Island Power Authority President and CEO Kevin Law and Consolidated Edison Chairman and CEO Kevin Burke have announced the creation of a "Wind Collaborative" to advance the LIPA-Con Edison Offshore Wind Farm project.

The Collaborative will be comprised of state and municipal entities interested in supporting or purchasing power from the proposed offshore wind project the two utilities are exploring.  The project would be sited approximately 13 miles off the Rockaway Peninsula in the Atlantic Ocean and would likely be designed for 350 MW of generation, with the ability to expand it to 700 MW, giving it the potential to be the largest offshore wind proposal in the country.

The Collaborative is part of the second phase of a joint feasibility study between the two utilities. The first phase concluded that an interconnection of up to 700 MW of wind power, located at the desired location in the Atlantic Ocean, would be feasible with upgrades to their respective transmission systems.