#VineyardWind1 just became the US's largest operating #offshore #windfarm
Sustainable energy company #Avangrid and green investors Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners today announced that at #VineyardWind 1 project five more #windturbines came online so Vineyard Wind 1 is now delivering more than 136 megawatts (MW) to the electric grid in #Massachusetts. (#NewYork’s #SouthForkWind, the US’s first complete utility-scale #offshorewind farm, is 132 MW.)
https://electrek.co/2024/06/25/vineyard-wind-1-us-largest-operating-offshore-wind-farm/

Decades after Europe, turning blades send first commercial #OffshoreWind power onto US grid

"Danish wind energy developer Ørsted and the utility Eversource announced the first electricity from what will be a 12-turbine wind farm called #SouthForkWind 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of #MontaukPoint, New York. It will be #NewYork’s first offshore wind farm."

https://apnews.com/article/offshore-wind-farm-orsted-eversource-biden-south-fork-new-york-a94722b3f4a52e93580ad15a2de257a0

#NewYork’s #SouthForkWind becomes the first utility-scale offshore #windfarm to generate power in the US
They completed installation of two turbines around 35 miles off #Montauk, with all 12 SG 11-200 DD #SiemensGamesa #offshorewind turbines expected to be installed by early 2024. The 130MW South Fork Wind will be US’s first completed utility-scale wind farm in federal waters. Eliminating 6M tons of #carbon #emissions, equivalent to 60,000 cars annually over a 25yr period
https://electrek.co/2023/12/06/us-first-utility-scale-offshore-wind-farm-first-power-south-fork/

"The task is immense in every dimension, including distance, time and cost. Out in the ocean, more than 30 miles east of Montauk Point, the mission is to erect a dozen towers and attach 318-foot-long fiberglass blades to each of them. Imagine the 50-story General Motors Building with three Statues of Liberty rotating around the top, attached by the tips of their torches."

#windfarm #windpower #southforkwind

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/nyregion/offshore-wind-power-farm-ny.html

#NewYork just installed its first #offshorewind turbine
The first #windturbine installation at #SouthForkWind, New York State’s first offshore wind farm, is complete. The 130-megawatt (MW) South Fork Wind will be the US’s first completed utility-scale #windfarm in federal waters.
https://electrek.co/2023/11/21/new-york-just-installed-its-first-offshore-wind-turbine/

South Fork Wind completes the momentous work readying the *first* turbine for loadout from the Port of New London.

"#NewYork’s first #OffshoreWind farm has reached a significant milestone with the start of offshore construction.

The #SouthForkWind milestone follows the first steel in the water at the larger #VineyardWind development earlier this month."

Coming soon:
#CleanEnergy
Marine preserve
Fishing, boating, windpark tourism!

#EnergyTransition
https://gcaptain.com/new-yorks-first-offshore-wind-farm-marks-steel-in-the-water/

The #US's first commercial #offshorewind farm just got its first foundation
#SouthForkWind, #NewYork State’s first offshore #windfarm, has achieved its “steel in the water” milestone with the installation of the project’s first monopile foundation.
https://electrek.co/2023/06/22/south-fork-wind-new-york/

The first US-built #offshorewind #substation is complete and headed to #SouthForkWind off #NewYork– a major milestone for the US #offshore #wind industry.
Offshore substations collect and stabilize power that the wind turbines generate, preparing it for transmission to shore. South Fork Wind’s 1,500-ton, 60-foot-tall substation was designed and engineered in Kansas, and built near #CorpusChristi by #KiewitOffshoreServices, the largest offshore fabricator in the US.
https://electrek.co/2023/05/29/first-us-built-offshore-wind-substation/

Happy New Year from Wainscott Beach! What you don't see offshore is Jill, the liftboat, because the horizontal directional drilling work finished more than a month ahead of schedule. There's more work to be done!

Delivered homemade blueberry muffins to the Hawkeye crew at Wainscott Northwest Road. Thanks for your hard work on the export cable for #SouthForkWind.

#elecnorhawkeye #orstedus
#eversourceenergy #offshorewind #renewableenergy #EastHamptonTown

Elecnor Hawkeye of Hauppauge in Wainscott pulling the ground cable for the export cable for South Fork Wind. It is a cold morning.

Liftboat Jill on the waters off East Hampton, NY for work prepping #SouthForkWind's submarine cable installation. #offshorewind #Orsted #Eversource #wind