Offshore wind (OSW) is an established technology in Europe, but it has not yet gained market share in the United States (U.S.). There is, however, increasing interest in and action supporting OSW development from many coastal states, predominantly along the Atlantic coast. As OSW grows in the U.S., as seems likely, it will displace existing and future generation assets. Depending on the energy resources used by those generators, emissions from the electric power sector will change. This research explores combinations of two energy sector drivers, OSW costs and carbon dioxide (CO2) mitigation stringency, to measure the changes in the energy mix and quantify OSW’s impact on the resulting emissions. This dataset is not publicly accessible because: This is a very large access file in a format specifically for the times model. It can be accessed through the following means: Contact Carol Lenox at lenox.carol@epa.gov. Format: The data resides in a number of excel files and in the corresponding TIMES model.

This dataset is associated with the following publication: Browning, M., and C. Lenox. Contribution of Offshore Wind to the Power Grid: U.S. Air Quality Implications. Applied Energy. Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS, 276: 115474, (2020).