“This cooperation represents PJM`s ongoing commitment to helping our states advance their public order objectives,” said Manu Asthana, President and CEO of the PJM. “We are pleased to help New Jersey advance its energy master plan and its goal of the Offshore Wind Development Strategic Plan, in accordance with New Jersey`s Offshore Wind Economic Development Act. We look at potential transmission solutions and then the BPU will make a decision on the decisions they want to make,” said Manu Asthana, President and CEO of PJM. The ASA would allocate the costs of each extension under it to the state requesting the extension, New Jersey, and that allocation would be submitted to the federal supervisory authorities. The NYISO recently submitted 15 stakeholder proposals to identify potential transmission needs that state policy leads to New York regulators, said spokesman Zachary Hutchins. “NYISO continues to work closely with [the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority] and the state to provide information on the integration of renewable energy… and the expertise of the planning process to advance the state`s offshore wind projects and fulfill the mandates of the CLCPA. The ASA is a way for states to enter into contracts for the transport facilities they will aim for in the future for specific energy targets. Transmission proponents can make proposals to PJM to address the need for infrastructure for 7.5 GW of wind. Terry Boston, CEO and President of PJM, said in the statement: “We believe our approach offers additional opportunities for competitive solutions for transmission requirements that end with our primary obligation to maintain reliability.” “After the release of their vision statement, we met with the states of New England to determine how best to help study the transmission needs of the future network, including offshore wind,” Kakley said. In its Compliance Submission of October 25, 25 FERC Order 1000, PJM contained a “state pact” approach to public order requirements that, according to Mike Kormos, senior vice president – operations at PJM – goes beyond what the mandate wanted to take into account. ISO New England is the first U.S. network operator to work with wind at sea, the first project in the country to have appeared in the waters of the state of Rhode Island.

The Vineyard Wind offshore project recently concluded its interconnection agreement with ISO-NE. “This is a first step in building the transfer to advance the winds targets in the New Jersey Sea,” said Asim Z. Haque, Vice President of State and Member Services. “I would like to thank the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities for its collaboration with our planning team and our new state policy solutions department. PJM continues to work with all of our states to help them achieve their energy goals. “If we go through this process, there may be transmission projects that ultimately do not meet our standards to meet the reliability of market efficiency tests [for example]… but that states may think they want to continue at the end,” he said at a media briefing. PJM is working with other states on their offshore wind targets, and other network operators along the Atlantic coast are also working with regulators and public authorities to integrate offshore wind. In October, New York expanded its Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) to 70% of the state`s clean energy target for onshore and offshore renewable energy by 2030, leading to enhanced cooperation between the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO).