New York State has issued a combined clean energy solicitation, seeking up to 4,000 MW of renewable energy capacity. The state’s second offshore wind solicitation seeks up to 2,500 MW of projects, in addition to last year’s solicitation which resulted in nearly 1,700 MW awarded. The solicitation includes a multi-port strategy and requirement for offshore…
Dominion Energy completes 12-MW offshore wind pilot project off Virginia coast
Dominion Energy successfully installed the two-turbine 12-MW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) pilot project 27 miles off Virginia Beach, the first offshore wind farm to be approved by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and installed in federal waters, and second constructed in the United States. CVOW was built safely and on schedule despite…
Wood Mackenzie says the United States will install 25 GW of offshore wind in next decade
New research from Wood Mackenzie shows that the U.S. offshore wind industry could deliver as much as 25 GW in 2029, capturing almost half of the U.S. market for new wind power installations. However, a number of uncertainties remain, including project timing. Max Cohen, principal analyst and author of Wood Mackenzie’s US Offshore Wind Outlook 2020-2029,…
12 U.S. offshore wind R&D projects receive $10.3 million in funding
The National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium announced selection of 12 projects for contract negotiation, completing its first solicitation for offshore wind research and development technology projects. The 12 awards totaling $10.3 million will support a variety of research areas, including comprehensive U.S. supply chain analyses, studying the impacts of offshore wind on the…
Equinor names New England offshore wind project Beacon Wind
Equinor’s offshore wind project set to be installed off coast of New England has been named Beacon Wind. When complete, the wind farm will provide reliable, renewable power to more than a million households in the Northeast United States. “Beacon conveys a sense of hope and guidance, qualities that we value very highly at Equinor,…
Atlantic Wind Transfers providing transport for Virginia offshore wind project
Atlantic Wind Transfers of Quonset Point, Rhode Island has secured its second long-term operations and maintenance (O&M) Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV) contract in the United States to provide offshore marine support services for the Siemens Gamesa offshore wind turbines to be installed for the first offshore wind project in U.S. federal waters. Atlantic Wind Transfers…
Ohio board approves construction of Lake Erie offshore wind project
The Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) issued a conditioned certificate providing Icebreaker Windpower an opportunity to move forward with the construction of six wind turbines in Lake Erie. If constructed, this demonstration project will be the first freshwater offshore wind farm in North America. The Icebreaker Wind project is planned to be located 8 to…
2,600-MW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project close to construction
Turbine components and monopiles for Dominion Energy and Ørsted’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) pilot project are en route to North America, with the project team and vessel crews successfully navigating the worldwide coronavirus pandemic to keep the team safe and the project on schedule. The foundations, consisting of the turbines’ monopiles, transition pieces and…
Bringing fishing and wind communities together to site U.S. offshore wind projects
By Henry Schneider, senior communications associate, Stove Boat Communications In April 2019, the Embassy of the United Kingdom and the state of New York brought two veteran British fishermen across the Atlantic Ocean to speak about their experiences working with offshore wind developers. While offshore wind is relatively new to the United States, with just…
Navigating the sea of regulations in offshore wind power
By Fabio Fracaroli, Senior Director, Renewable Segment North America, ABB Power Grids As the offshore wind power market in the United States continues to mature, developers are having to come to grips with a complex regulatory landscape before pushing projects forward. The primary driver behind those regulations is the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)…
Navigant Research releases report showing growth of global offshore wind market
A new report from Navigant Research discusses the main regional and country markets driving offshore wind and analyzes trends and forecast data on a megawatt level through 2028. A decade ago, in the infancy of offshore wind, there were concerns that it would be too expensive to grow at a large scale and compete with traditional market…
Dominion Energy contracts Ramboll for support on 2,600-MW offshore wind project
Dominion Energy continues to use the expertise of global leaders in the offshore wind industry for its proposed Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project with the selection of Ramboll as owner’s engineer, to provide project development and engineering support on the project, which will produce enough zero-carbon electricity to power 650,000 Virginia homes. “Ramboll is a…
AWEA expects 30 GW of offshore wind capacity in the United States by 2030
The U.S. offshore wind industry is set to deliver significant economic benefits over the next decade, according to the new report, “U.S. Offshore Wind Power Economic Impact Assessment,” released today by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). In addition to providing clean, affordable, and reliable power, AWEA estimates that developing 30,000 MW of offshore wind…
New report suggests demand for submarine cable on U.S. offshore wind farms could reach $8 billion
The Business Network for Offshore Wind has partnered with SubCableWorld, the data and information source for the submarine cable industry, to release today a whitepaper, “Forecasting the Next Decade of U.S. Offshore Wind Cable Demand,” that suggests demand for submarine cables to offshore wind farms in the United States could surpass 13,500 kilometers by 2030, at…
NJ calls for first 1.2 GW of offshore wind proposals by September 2020
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy yesterday announced the offshore wind solicitation schedule to meet the 7,500-MW offshore wind goal by 2035 and called upon the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to take all necessary actions to implement the schedule. These projects will deliver the clean, renewable energy generation needed to meet the state’s goals…
Vineyard Wind I offshore project construction delayed by DOI permitting
Vineyard Wind released a statement about the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) permitting timeline for the Vineyard Wind 1 Project. “We have received updated information from the Department of Interior that indicates the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Vineyard Wind I project will be published later than what was…
Offshore wind has reached an opportunity moment in its public affairs
By Mike Casey, President and Founder, Tigercomm Public support for different forms of renewable energy is at record levels nationwide, but these sectors are also facing growing risk and cost from aggressive NIMBY (not in my backyard) opposition at the local level. The onshore wind industry is now seeing half-billion-dollar power projects killed because 50…
Ørsted academic partnership will assist in protecting right whales in U.S. offshore wind portfolio waters
Ørsted U.S. Offshore Wind has partnered with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, the University of Rhode Island (URI) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to launch the Ecosystem and Passive Acoustic Monitoring (ECO-PAM) project. Ørsted signed an initial memorandum of understanding with Rutgers University in May 2019 to support academic research activities related…
Ørsted opens hub in Rhode Island to support offshore wind development
Ørsted, global offshore wind developer, has announced the opening of its U.S. Innovation Hub in Providence, Rhode Island. The Innovation Hub will be located in the CIC Providence workspace and will officially open early spring. As part of Ørsted’s commitment to building an offshore wind industry supply chain in the United States, the company is…
Dominion Energy using Siemens Gamesa turbines in Virginia offshore wind farm
Dominion Energy reached another significant milestone in the development of the nation’s largest offshore wind power project with the selection of Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy as the project’s preferred turbine supplier. A competitive solicitation process identified Siemens Gamesa as the optimal supplier based on a combination of cost, performance and proven track record as one…