Offshore staff
NEW BEDFORD, Massachusetts – Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, has selected GE as its preferred supplier of wind turbine generators for its Vineyard Wind 1 project.
The project, the first utility-scale offshore wind installation in the US, will use GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X 13-MW wind turbine generators.
Also, Vineyard Wind has decided to temporarily withdraw its construction and operations plan from further review by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). This will allow the project team to conduct a final technical review associated with the inclusion of the Haliade-X into the final project design.
The company expects its review to take several weeks, after which it will resume the federal permitting process with BOEM. With buffer built into the project schedule, the company said it still expects to reach financial close in the second half of 2021 and to begin delivering power to Massachusetts in 2023.
Vineyard Wind 1 is an 800-MW project located 15 mi (24 km) off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard and is slated to become the first large-scale offshore wind farm in the US.
According to the company, the project is expected to power more than 400,000 homes and businesses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and reduce carbon emissions by more than 1.6 million tons per year.
12/02/2020
