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ProfileNeptune Cable
The Neptune Regional Transmission System is an electric transmission cable system that links Long Island to diverse, lower cost sources of energy supply in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and eleven other states in the mid-Atlantic and Ohio River Valley regions. It provides up to 660 megawatts of electricity to help meet Long Island's needs.
In June 2004, Neptune was selected as the off-Island component of a diverse portfolio of resources developed under a comprehensive request for proposals process in accordance with the procurement requirements of the State of New York.
The 65-mile-long Neptune cable connects New Cassel, Long Island and Sayreville, New Jersey. In conjunction with the 25-mile-long cross-Sound cable between Shoreham, Long Island and New Haven, Connecticut, it has opened up an energy corridor that runs from the mid-West and mid-Atlantic, through Long Island, and on into New England and Canada.
The Office of the State Comptroller approved a firm transmission capacity purchase agreement between LIPA and Neptune in January 2005. It gives LIPA the rights to all 660 megawatts of capacity on the Neptune cable for 20 years. Construction and cable installation activities began in the fall of 2005.
Construction was completed and commercial operations began in the summer of 2007.
