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Dive Short:
- All 12 mills on the offshore 130-MW South Fork Wind project had been installed and are delivering energy to the Prolonged Island grid, Contemporary York Governor Kathy Hochul, D, stated in a Thursday liberate.
- As well to, on Friday, the Bureau of Ocean Vitality Administration announced it has finalized the designation of a two million acre wind energy topic in the Gulf of Maine, advancing the company’s efforts to attract offshore wind there.
- BOEM furthermore published a look of intent on the fresh time to prepare an environmental affect observation for the proposed Atlantic Shores North project offshore Contemporary Jersey.
Dive Perception:
South Fork Wind, a joint Eversource and Ørsted project, began construction in early 2022 and installed its first monopile foundation in June.
Haugland Vitality Neighborhood, a unit of Melville, Contemporary York-primarily based fully mostly Haugland Neighborhood, installed the underground duct financial institution system for South Fork Wind’s onshore transmission line and led the construction of the project’s onshore interconnection facility, per the governor’s liberate.
Loads of firms that worked on the job consist of Hauppauge, Contemporary York-primarily based fully mostly construction manager Elecnor Hawkeye and Bay Shore, Contemporary York-headquartered Roman Stone Construction, which manufactured concrete mattresses to defend undersea cables. Wellsville, Contemporary York-primarily based fully mostly Ljungström USA offered in point of fact objective right structural steelwork in partnership with Riggs Distler & Co. of Cherry Hill, Contemporary Jersey.
The project isn’t fully total, as commissioning is soundless ongoing, nonetheless it’s some distance the fundamental utility-scale offshore wind farm to total construction in the U.S.
“Completion of the fundamental utility-scale offshore wind farm in the US is a well-known nationwide milestone, a indispensable step in direction of reaching Contemporary York Issue’s courageous climate targets, and crucial for delivering neatly-kept energy straight to Contemporary Yorkers,” stated Jessica Ottney Mahar, policy and draw director at The Nature Conservancy in Contemporary York.
Contemporary York has location a draw of deploying 9 GW of offshore wind by 2035. Most initiatives soundless below construction off the sigh’s shores are better than South Fork Wind — in February, the Contemporary York Issue Vitality Analysis and Trend Authority chosen the 810-MW Empire Wind 1 and 924-MW Morning time Wind initiatives as segment of the sigh’s fourth offshore wind solicitation.
“With extra initiatives in the pipeline, here is barely the starting of Contemporary York’s offshore wind future and I expect forward to continued partnership with the Biden Administration and native leaders to provide a neatly-kept and resilient energy grid,” Hochul stated.
The Gulf of Maine wind energy topic finalized by BOEM on Friday could per chance per chance well potentially enhance as a lot as 32 GW of energy, “surpassing fresh sigh targets for offshore wind energy in the Gulf of Maine: 10 GW for Massachusetts and 3 GW for Maine,” the company stated.
BOEM is trying for public observation via April 17 about “well-known environmental concerns” and the “identification of affordable seemingly choices” to be thought to be by the environmental review.
The company is furthermore trying for public observation via Could per chance per chance 2 about the proposed Atlantic Shores project offshore Contemporary Jersey. BOEM officially announced on the fresh time its intent to total an environmental affect observation for the project’s construction and operations notion.
“Federal agencies, Tribes, Issue and native governments, captivating events, and the public are requested to observation on the scope of this EIS, indispensable concerns that uncover to be addressed, and seemingly choices that uncover to be thought to be,” BOEM stated in its Federal Register look.
Atlantic Shores has proposed the installation of 157 wind mills, eight offshore substations and two seemingly export cable corridors that would build landfall in Contemporary Jersey, with one potentially making landfall in Contemporary York Metropolis.
Joe Bousquin contributed to this fable.
