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In May, ships started arriving in New Bedford, Massachusetts carrying offshore wind turbines taller than a football field is long. These turbines are now being installed 15 miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard at the United States’ first utility-scale offshore wind farm. 62 turbines, capable of powering over 400,000 homes, will provide pollution-free electricity to… Read More
The costs associated with U.S. offshore wind projects have risen by 57% since 2021 due to inflation in components and labor costs, as well as rising interest rates, leading to a large number of canceled or renegotiated deals. The recent cancellations of major offshore wind projects have erased billions of dollars in planned spending and… Read More
America’s first major offshore wind farm is coming into focus on the wavy horizon off Massachusetts. An electric substation the length of a football field looms three stories above the water. Six yellow T-shaped poles protrude from the waves in a line along the ocean. They will serve as foundations for the project’s first turbines… Read More
Work to install the first of the wind turbines at the UK’s Dogger Bank – on course to be the world’s largest offshore wind farm – is set to begin within days, said the companies behind the project. Project partners SSE, Equinor and Vargronn said the installation of the first of the 277 13MW GE… Read More
Avangrid, a U.S.-based subsidiary of the Spanish renewable energy giant Iberdrola, on Monday shared a photo of the completed Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind substation. This is the first offshore wind substation installed in the U.S. and will serve the country’s first large-scale offshore wind farm – Vineyard Wind. The offshore substation serves to collect the… Read More
The Biden administration appears to be scrambling for research on the conflict between wind turbines and a highly endangered whale species on the East Coast following reports of “unprecedented” whale deaths. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), a regulatory body from the Department of Interior that leases offshore areas for energy development, posted a grant notice in May targeted… Read More
Two Chinese yards have completed deliveries of an offshore installation ship and a large river and coastal dredger while US and Russian operators have placed orders for new dredgers. Chinese-built large crane ship enters service Chinese shipbuilder Zhenhua Heavy Industry has delivered a new large crane vessel to China Communications Construction Company (CCCC). Haifeng 2001 has… Read More
LONDON, Aug 1 (Reuters) – BP (BP.L) and its partner Equinor (EQNR.OL) are renegotiating the terms of power supply agreements linked to their giant wind developments off the U.S. East Coast, BP CEO Bernard Looney said on Tuesday. “We are in the midst of renegotiating our PPA (power purchase agreement) contracts in the East Coast with our partner Equinor,”… Read More
Last week, Dutch marine contractor Boskalis completed the installation of what is the first US manufactured offshore wind substation at the South Fork Wind offshore wind farm. Boskalis, that was awarded the contract to manage transport and installation of the offshore substation and the XXL monopiles for the project last year, used its heavy lift… Read More
Port of Entry Harbor District begins environmental review for project to turn Humboldt Bay into a wind farm manufacturing hub Big changes are afoot on the Samoa Peninsula. The Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District is planning to construct a large manufacturing center to craft and assemble giant wind turbines suitable for the deep… Read More
On a recent weekday, gulls circled overhead while a backhoe leveled a pile of dirt along the industrial waterfront of New Bedford, Massachusetts. “We’re developing a port facility here to support offshore wind construction,” said Andrew Saunders, the president of the port, called the Foss Marine Terminal. When it’s complete, Saunders plans to lease the… Read More
Newly announced offshore wind energy areas totaling more than 350,000 acres could power 3.5 to 7 million households if fully developed. As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of deploying 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind energy capacity by 2030, today the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced three final offshore Wind Energy Areas… Read More
The US offshore wind industry is, in a sense, an admission of failure. Consider that onshore wind-power potential in the US is estimated to be as much as 2.28 terawatts — roughly double the entire capacity of all types of generation operating today — and perhaps as much as 15 terawatts. Offshore wind-power potential, in the lower 48 states,… Read More
A new study out today analyzes how offshore wind energy could help the U.S. meet its renewable energy and sustainability goals. It comes as a floating offshore wind farm is planned for the coast off of Morro Bay. The study was written by researchers from UC Berkeley, Energy Innovation and GridLab. It found offshore wind… Read More
The US has some of the most potential for offshore wind energy in the world, says a new analysis by the University of California, Berkeley. Offshore wind resources are plentiful enough to generate up to a quarter of the nation’s electricity by 2050, in time to help meet global climate goals. It will take a monumental effort… Read More