Some US electric grid operators, such as the Electric Reliability Council of Texas Inc., have pursued the notion that if they build transmission, generators will come. But in the budding U.S. offshore wind industry, the opposite is now true: States are accepting proposals from developers that bundle generation and transmission together, creating a patchwork of proposals to deliver wind-generated power from offshore to a limited number of onshore interconnections. As the East Coast braces for up to 30 GW of offshore wind development by 2035, there has been limited coordination among the federal government, states and grid operators on the thorny transmission issue. The Business Network for Offshore Wind on Oct. 26 released a white paper that called the lack of coordinated transmission policy “an existential constraint upon the ability of the OSW industry […]