Marking a milestone in U.S. offshore wind development, installation of the first GE Haliade-X Wind Turbine Generator (WTG) at the Vineyard Wind 1 project was completed this week. It was hailed as a “first-in-the-nation” achievement by Vineyard Wind developers Avangrid, Inc. and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.
The completed Haliade-X turbine consists of one tower, three blades, and one nacelle, and the fully assembled machine is the largest turbine in the western world,...