(Credit score: Avangrid)
Avangrid hosted management from the Bureau of Security and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) for a tour of the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal final week (Feb. 21), which is able to function the offshore management and marine coordination heart for Winery Wind 1.
The terminal additionally serves because the staging and meeting port for turbine elements for the 806 MW Winery Wind 1 undertaking, situated 15 miles off the coast of Martha’s Winery. The terminal moreover serves as central command for assigning and monitoring working vessels and monitoring personnel working offshore.
“The New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal is the muse for our operations in pioneering Winery Wind 1, the primary large-scale offshore wind undertaking in the US,” stated Avangrid CEO Pedro Azagra.
“Our staff was grateful for the chance to showcase the groundbreaking operations happening on the port to BSEE Director Sligh and his employees, highlighting the laborious work of the women and men constructing this historic undertaking. Our success on Winery Wind 1 will not be potential with out sturdy help and collaboration from our federal companions, and we sit up for continued engagement with BSEE because the undertaking strikes to the operational stage.”
