Nexans has won a contract with Ørsted and Eversource to install and protect the export cable link for the Revolution Wind Farm. The project will connect the wind farm to the onshore grid and help Connecticut and Rhode Island states achieve ongoing commitments to develop offshore wind. This will be Nexans’ first cable installation project…
BOEM receives $4.37 billion in winning bids for New York Bight offshore wind lease area
The Department of the Interior today announced the results of the nation’s highest-grossing competitive offshore energy lease sale in history, including oil and gas lease sales, with the New York Bight offshore wind sale. Today’s lease sale offered six lease areas totaling over 488,000 acres in the New York Bight for potential wind energy development…
COWI to engineer turbine foundations for Empire Wind offshore projects
Engineering consulting group COWI has been contracted by Empire Offshore Wind, a joint venture between Equinor and BP, to deliver turnkey design for the wind turbine foundations for Empire Wind 1 and 2 off the coast of Long Island, New York With an anticipated generation capacity of more than 2 GW of renewable power, the…
“Groundbreaking” held for New York’s South Fork offshore wind farm
The South Fork Wind offshore project has officially begun construction after a “groundbreaking” today attended by Sec. of the Interior Deb Haaland and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. The first offshore wind project for New York and the second commercial-scale offshore project approved in federal waters in the United States, South Fork will have a…
132-MW South Fork offshore wind project approved to start construction
South Fork Wind, New York’s first offshore wind farm, has received approval of the project’s Construction and Operations Plan (COP) from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), which is the final decision needed from the agency to move the project toward the start of construction. The COP approval outlines…
Biden Administration opens New York Bight area to potentially 7 GW of offshore wind leases
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold a wind auction next month for more than 480,000 acres offshore New York and New Jersey, in the area known as the New York Bight. The Feb. 23 auction will allow offshore wind developers to bid on six lease areas – the most areas ever offered…
New York commits $500 million to boost offshore wind infrastructure
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a plan to invest $500 million in offshore wind and its related supply chain infrastructure. “With this investment, New York will lead the nation on offshore wind production, creating green jobs for New Yorkers, and powering our clean energy future,” Gov. Hochul said. “I am proud to make New York…
US Wind approved for 1,100 MW of offshore wind for Maryland
The State of Maryland has awarded the US Wind 808.5 MW in Offshore Renewable Energy Credits (ORECs) for Momentum Wind, a new offshore wind project slated to come online in 2026. Adding 55 turbines to the Maryland Lease area, Momentum Wind will deliver enough offshore wind power for 200,000 homes. The 55 turbines for Momentum…
With latest procurement, Mayflower Wind boosts capacity to 1,200 MW off Massachusetts coast
Mayflower Wind, the developer of the offshore wind project in joint venture between Shell New Energies and Ocean Winds, announced it was awarded a 400-MW PPA by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and its three biggest utilities as part of Massachusetts’ 83C III offshore wind energy procurement. Combined with its 804-MW PPA from 83C II, Mayflower…
Avangrid Renewables’ 1,232-MW offshore wind project selected for procurement in Massachusetts
Avangrid Renewables‘ joint venture offshore wind project, Commonwealth Wind, has been selected as part of Massachusetts’ third offshore wind competitive procurement process. The 1,232-MW project is New England’s largest offshore wind project to date and will create 11,000 full-time equivalent jobs over its lifetime and generate enough energy to power 750,000 homes annually. “Commonwealth Wind…
New York’s 1st offshore wind project is up for construction approval this January
South Fork Wind, New York’s first offshore wind farm received its Record of Decision (ROD) from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), reaching a critical milestone in the federal environmental review. South Fork Wind remains on track to be fully permitted by early 2022, and with the project’s joint…
Transmission cables being laid for 800-MW Vineyard Wind 1 offshore project
Construction is starting on the Vineyard Wind 1 project, the first commercial-scale offshore wind project in the United States. The first steps of construction will include two transmission cables that will connect Vineyard Wind 1 to the mainland. The Vineyard Wind I project will generate 800 MW of electricity annually, from just off the coast of…
Submarine cable contractors selected for Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project
Dominion Energy Virginia awarded the largest submarine cable contract in U.S. history to Prysmian Group and DEME Group. The balance of plant (BoP) contract includes the complete package for the transportation and installation of the foundations and the substations and EPC services for the inter-array and export cables for the future largest commercial offshore wind…
Nexans subsea transmission cable manufacturing facility setting up in South Carolina for offshore wind market
Ørsted and Eversource are jointly investing in a Nexans subsea transmission cable manufacturing facility in South Carolina to provide subsea cables for the companies’ offshore projects in the Northeast. In 2019, Ørsted and Eversource entered into a framework agreement with Nexans, committing to purchase subsea cables for their Northeast offshore wind farms. Nexans will manufacture…
Siemens Energy will connect New York’s 1st offshore wind project to the grid
Siemens Energy was awarded its first offshore grid connection project in the United States. In a consortium with Aker Solutions, the company will supply the high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system that will bring green energy from Sunrise Wind, New York’s first utility-scale offshore wind project, to the mainland. It’s the first offshore wind project…
Ready-to-float: A permanent cost reduction for offshore wind
By Robert Speht, CEO and co-founder of FloatWind Ltd The world’s first gigawatt-capacity floating offshore wind farm remains a little way off, but advances across the industry are bringing it ever closer. As it stands, floating offshore wind farms have a levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of more than three-times that of fixed-bottom wind farms. And…
New York City makes plans to become key offshore wind player
New York City Mayor de Blasio and the New York City Economic Development Corp. (NYCEDC) have announced a 15-year, $191 million Offshore Wind Vision (OSW) plan to make the city a leading destination for the offshore wind industry. The plan also ensures the city meets nation-leading climate goals of 100% clean electricity by 2040 and…
Avangrid Renewables restructures offshore wind plan with European development partner
Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) plan to restructure their offshore wind development joint venture, Vineyard Wind. The Vineyard wind portfolio includes the first commercial-scale offshore wind project in U.S. waters, Vineyard Wind 1, an 800-megawatt (MW) project that will deliver clean energy to Massachusetts beginning in 2023. The project was financed last week…
September 2021 Issue: Crossing the power threshold for offshore wind turbines
Windpower Engineering & Development is a growing wind-power resource targeting professionals involved in all aspects of a wind farm’s lifecycle, including developers, engineers, technicians, manufacturers and researchers that work to site, build, maintain, repair and optimize wind-related components, software and projects. The goal at Windpower Engineering & Development is to educate and expand the knowledge…
Ørsted and Eversource plan offshore wind substation in Texas
Offshore wind joint development partners Ørsted and Eversource are planning the construction of the first American-built offshore wind substation, which will be deployed at the developers’ South Fork Wind project serving New York’s Long Island. Kiewit Offshore Services will design and build the substation for the 132-MW South Fork Wind project — New York’s first…