b'14American Journal of Transportation ajot.com(SERVEcontinued fromested entities has not started page 10) yet,butSabinaanticipates tosupportingthedevelop- that further developments on ment of a wind energy indus- that front will be announced try in New Jersey and off itsin the coming months.coast. (See box on page 10)Whenthewindportis The state estimates the newfullydeveloped,Saporito windportwillcostbetweenexpectsitwillbeserving $300millionand$400mil- windprojectswellbeyond lion to fully develop. NJEDANew Jersey waters, to include isleadingthedevelopmentprojects off New York, Dela-effortsandisconsideringware,andMaryland.Par-arangeofpublic,private,cels like the wind port are not andpublic-privatepartner- readilyavailable,hesaid. shipfinancingoptions.TheWhen you look at the Con-precisefinancingschemenecticut State Pier, which is for the wind port has yet toalso vying for a slice of the beannouncedbutobserv- wind business, you are talk-ersnotethatthegover- ingabout30acres.Weare nors office would not havetalkingabout200acresof announcedaconstructionproperty that were develop-Dutch subsea cable installer, Blue Offshore, fashioned a unique double basket carrousel barge to move 8,000 tonsstart in the second quarter ofing. This is virgin land that of cables from the manufacturing site in Greece to Rotterdam 2021 unless there was a clearthestatewantstodedicate (GRIDLOCKcontinuedthat stretches more than 2,000Rhodes calls it a trillion-dol- path to financing.tooffshorewindgenera-from page 13) miles.Transformersweighlar problem, adding, even ifPlanning and permittingtion. Its different in size and is studying the concept. Some800 metric tons each and arethe grid stays the exact samework is certainly well underscope,whencomparedto microgridsarealreadyoper- 37 meters long (121 feet). asitistoday,justonmain- way, Sabina allowed. other facilities that are being ating,althoughtheressomeFinally,justkeepingthetenance,weregoingtobeSimilarly, the process ofdeveloped to serve the wind skepticismthattheycanbeold grid working is a tall order.spending trillions of dollars. leasing port parcels to inter- energy industry.widely used. People roman-ticize the idea of locally pro-ducedpower,justlikethey romanticize the idea of locally produced food, said Rhodes. Its a lot harder when its 100 degrees outside and you and all of your neighbors want air conditioning.i mPact ofG ridt raNsformatioNThe grids transformation will impact logistics handlers insometimescontradictory ways. For example, as AJOT has written about extensively, windturbinesarebecom-ingevermorepowerful, whichmeanstheyrelarger andheavier.Transportation andhandlingbecomepro-portionatelymorechalleng-ing. For Instance, LM Wind hasdevelopedabladethat reaches 107 meters in length [ 351 feet].Offshore wind can be espe-cially difficult, with purpose-builtvesselsandadvanced handlingtechniques.InJuly, for example, the Dutch subsea cable installer, Blue Offshore, fashionedauniquedouble basketcarrouselbargeto move8,000tonsofcables from the manufacturing site in Greece to Rotterdam.On the other hand, both batteries and solar panels are modular. They are built to be containerized.Anarrayof photovoltaiccellsstandsin stark contrast to a coal plant.Aspowerisdecentral-izedanddistributed,the physical attributes of the grid change. You need less grid infrastructureandyoualso needlesscentralizedpower generation, said Mayr.On the other hand, ultra-highvoltagepowerlines canmoreefficientlysend electricityfrom,say,arural source to a population center hundreds of miles away. One $6billionprojectinChina, completedlastyear,con-structed a 1,100-kV (1.1 mil-lion volts) direct-current line'