The primary monopile foundations have arrived on the Port of Virginia for Dominion Power’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) challenge within the US.
In September, the primary eight monopile foundations set sail from EEW SPC’s manufacturing facility in Rostock, Germany, to the Portsmouth Marine Terminal within the US.
The 83-metre-long foundations had been manufactured by EEW SPC. The German firm will provide the challenge with 176 items in whole that weigh 1,538 tonnes every and have a diameter of as much as 9.5 metres.
As reported, Dominion Power chosen a consortium of DEME and Prysmian because the Stability of Plant (BoP) contractors accountable for the transportation and set up of the foundations and the substations, and the engineering, procurement, development, and set up (EPCI) companies for the inter-array and export cables for what would be the largest industrial offshore wind farm in the US.
Dominion Power is proposing to put in 176 Siemens Gamesa 14 MW wind generators and three offshore substations in a 112,800-acre industrial lease space positioned 27 miles (about 43 kilometres) off the Virginia Seashore coast.
In its press launch from 5 September, Dominion Power additionally revealed plans to usher in a noncontrolling fairness financing associate on the two.6 GW offshore wind challenge, which might de-risk the challenge and is a part of further capital sourcing, on high of the sale of its pure fuel distribution corporations, inside the firm’s ongoing enterprise overview.
As soon as totally constructed in 2026, the two.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind challenge will be capable of generate sufficient electrical energy to energy as much as 660,000 households.
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