Wind Power Backbone Sought Off Atlantic Coast - NYTimes.com

By MATTHEW L. WALD

Published: October 12, 2010

"The system’s backbone cable, with a capacity of 6,000 megawatts, equal to the output of five large nuclear reactors, would run in shallow trenches on the seabed in federal waters 15 to 20 miles offshore, from northern New Jersey to Norfolk, Va. The notion would be to harvest energy from turbines in an area where the wind is strong but the hulking towers would barely be visible."