Building has been accomplished and all twelve wind generators have been powered up on the first commercial-scale offshore wind farm within the US, the 132 MW South Fork Wind. The mission has began delivering energy to Lengthy Island and the Rockaways, offshore New York, with commissioning in its remaining stage.
“After I broke floor on the South Fork mission, I made a promise to construct a cleaner, greener future for all New Yorkers. I’m preserving to that promise and South Fork Wind is now delivering clear vitality to tens of 1000’s of properties and companies on Lengthy Island,” mentioned New York Governor Kathy Hochul.
At full capability of 132 MW, the offshore wind farm will generate sufficient renewable vitality to energy roughly 70,000 properties.
The renewable vitality is generated roughly 35 miles (about 56 kilometres) off the coast of Montauk and can eradicate as much as six million tonnes of carbon emissions over the lifetime of the mission, the equal of taking 60,000 vehicles off the highway for the following 20 years.
The South Fork Wind started building in February 2022, starting with the onshore export cable system that connects the mission to the Lengthy Island electrical grid.
The wind farm reached its “metal within the water” milestone in June 2023 and the mission’s offshore substation was put in on the website a month later.
The wind turbine parts began arriving in New London across the identical time with Van Oord’s set up vessel Aeolus putting in the primary unit on the finish of November. A month later, the offshore wind farm delivered its first energy to the grid.
The ultimate Siemens Gamesa 11 MW wind turbine was put in in February 2024.
“Because of the native union employees and contractors who helped us construct South Fork Wind’s transmission system and onshore substation, clear vitality is flowing to the Lengthy Island grid. Constructing South Fork Wind was a real regional effort and couldn’t have been realized with out the assist and funding in ports at ProvPort in Rhode Island and the New London State Pier in Connecticut,” mentioned Joe Nolan, Eversource Power Chairman, President and Chief Government Officer.
At the moment owned by Ørsted and Eversource, the offshore wind farm will quickly see a change in possession as Eversource Power is within the means of promoting its 50 per cent stake in South Fork Wind and Revolution Wind tasks to International Infrastructure Companions (GIP), however will keep its beforehand introduced tax fairness funding in South Fork Wind. The transaction is anticipated to shut in mid-2024.
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