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Offshore Wind Power Examined: Effects, Benefits, and Costs of Offshore Wind Farms Along the US Atlantic and Gulf CoastsDaniel Shawhan, Sally Robson, and Ethan Russell Working Paper 24-17 October 2024Resources for the FutureiAbout the Authors Daniel Shawhan is a fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF), an adjunct faculty member at Cornell University, and a member of the Environmental Advisory Council of the New York Independent System Operator. Much of his research focuses on predicting and estimating the effects of electricity policies, including environmental ones. He leads the development and application of the Engineering, Economic, and Environmental Electricity Simulation Tool (E4ST), a detailed US and Canadian power sector model for simulating how power grids, power plants, air quality, and public health will respond to potential changes in policy and infrastructure. He also works on electricity market design and environmental policy design. Shawhan has helped state governments craft electricity market reforms and first-in-the-nation policies for hybrid vehicles, energy efficiency, green buildings, and renewable energy. Sally Robson is a research analyst at RFF, where she works on E4ST. She previously studied engineering at Smith College, with a focus on energy systems and energy storage at the macro- and microgrid level. Ethan Russell is a senior research analyst at RFF, where he works on E4ST. Much of his work has been focused on rewriting E4ST, enabling future features to model the increasingly complex power grid and surrounding economies. Before RFF, he worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he developed simulation tools and algorithms for decision-making under uncertainty. He received a bachelor of science in electrical engineering at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology in 2019.Contact InformationDaniel ShawhanFellow, Resources for the Futureshawhan@rff.org202-328-5027Acknowledgements We thank Mrunal Bhalerao and Robin Young for their work gathering data on the set of proposed offshore wind projects and for other contributions to this work. We are grateful to the contributors to RFF’s Electric Power Program for financial support of this project and the development of the necessary simulation tools. Our gratitude also goes to Gurobi Optimization for the use of the excellent Gurobi solver software and to Energy Visuals, Inc. for the uniquely detailed Transmission Atlas and FirstRate power grid data used in this study. We appreciate our RFF colleagues who provided input and otherwise helped, including Andrew Gossett, Karen Palmer, Angeline Yang, Caroline Hamilton, Donnie Peterson, and William Pizer.Offshore Wind Power Examined: Effects, Benefits, and Costs of Offshore Wind Farms along the US Atlantic and Gulf CoastsiiThis study uses the Engineering, Economic, and Environmental Electricity Simulation Tool (E4ST), an outgrowth of MATPOWER. Past developers of E4ST, some of whom are still involved, include Ray D. Zimmerman, William D. Schulz