The primary US-built and Jones Act-compliant offshore wind turbine set up vessel (WTIV), Charybdis, can be accomplished in late 2024 or early 2025, Dominion Power stated in its monetary report for the third quarter of 2023, confirming the data that surfaced after the corporate’s second quarter report in August.
Building of the primary US WTIV began in 2020 and Charybdis was initially anticipated to enter service this 12 months.
Whereas the vessel can be launched later than deliberate, Dominion Power, the proprietor of the vessel and the developer of the two.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) undertaking, says Charybdis’s postponed completion date continues to be supportive of the CVOW undertaking schedule, together with any third-party constitution agreements in 2025.
Charybdis is below building in Brownsville, Texas, with Seatrium, an organization created by Sembcorp Marine and Keppel Offshore & Marine, constructing the vessel.
The vessel’s 2,200-tonne Huisman Leg Encircling Crane (LEC) arrived in Texas at the start of this 12 months and in August, the set up of the vessel’s first leg was accomplished.
The following milestone is engine start-up, which is anticipated this month or in December, in accordance with Dominion Power.
In August, the corporate reported that the overall undertaking prices on the vessel climbed to USD 625 million (roughly EUR 584 million) and reported the identical determine in its third quarter outcomes on 3 November.
Dominion says these previous will increase are attributable to increased financing prices that elevated resulting from rates of interest and building period, and better ancillary prices resembling crew coaching and capital spares.
Apart from its personal 2.6 GW CVOW offshore wind farm in Virginia, Dominion Power’s vessel is scheduled to work on different US offshore wind initiatives too.
In 2021, the WTIV secured its first job as Ørsted and Eversource entered into an settlement with Dominion Power to constitution Charybdis for the development of their Revolution Wind and Dawn Wind offshore wind farms within the US Northeast.
Earlier this month, Ørsted stated the 2 offshore wind initiatives can be constructed inside an extended timeline resulting from provide chain bottlenecks, together with vessel availability.
