NEW YORK, NY — The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) has released a study evaluating the potential for using offshore wind generators to produce electricity for Long Island. The study shows that a maximum of about 5,200 MW of electricity could be produced by wind generators placed in a 314-square-mile band that stretches three to six nautical miles off Long Island’s south shore and east of Montauk Point.

Keeping it to a smaller, 135-square-mile band about three nautical miles from shore, with water depths of 50 feet or less, about 2,250 MW of wind-generated power could be produced to meet the area’s growing demand for electricity.