Ørsted has submitted a proposal for a new 1,184 MW offshore wind farm, called Starboard Wind, to Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. It would use the New London State Pier for staging and assembly and power more than 600,000 homes in the state.
Ørsted says the Starboard Wind project would deliver offshore wind power to Connecticut at “stable and predictable pricing for decades.”The project would bring nearly $420 million of direct investment and expenditure to...
Yesterday the Sunrise Wind project received its Record of Decision (ROD) from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), crossing a critical milestone in the federal environmental review process. The ROD formally concludes the agency’s National Environmental Policy Act review process and precedes the anticipated approval of Sunrise Wind’s Construction and Operations Plan (COP), expected this summer. Marking a business milestone, developers Ørsted and Eversource reported that they had jointly...
https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/offshore-wind/sunrise-wind-passes-two-new-milestones/
Warren, Rhode Island-based boatbuilder Blount Boats has launched a new crewboat ordered by American Offshore Services (AOS), a partnership between Swedish offshore vessel operator the Northern Offshore Group and US-based investment firm OIC. Gripper is a 100-foot (30.4-metre), Jones Act-compliant aluminium catamaran crewboat built to support Ørsted and Eversource’s growing portfolio of offshore wind farms in […]
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul looks to have notched up two more successes in her efforts to get New York State offshore wind back on track. Today she announced that the state has conditionally awarded two offshore wind projects from its fourth offshore wind solicitation: Empire Wind 1, (developed by Equinor) and Sunrise Wind (developed by Ørsted and Eversource).
“I promised to make New York a place for the renewable energy industry to do business, and we are delivering on that promise,” Governor...
Eversource Energy has announced a definitive agreement to sell its 50 percent ownership stake in two offshore wind projects off the U.S. Northeast to Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). The deal…
https://gcaptain.com/eversource-to-sell-stakes-u-s-offshore-wind-projects-for-1-1-billion/
The Connecticut Wind Collaborative has now launched and has named an initial board of directors,The creation of the Wind Collaborative was first announced last October as part of Connecticut’s Offshore Wind Strategic Roadmap, which calls for the new nonprofit to work collaboratively with business, industry, academia, across state agencies and alongside stakeholders in neighboring states to advance the regional supply chain and workforce necessary to meet the growing demand for this green,...
https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/offshore-wind/connecticut-wind-collaborative-has-launched/
Efforts to get New York offshore wind back on track continue. Following New York State’s successful third offshore wind solicitation, both Ørsted and Equinor have bid into New York’s fourth offshore wind solicitation (NY4), with some familiar projects being resubmitted — and some changing of partners is going on.
The stage for NY4 was set back in November 2023 when the New York State Public Service Commission denied petitions submitted by offshore wind developers that sought to address...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on December 6 the successful delivery of clean power to Long Island from the first operational wind turbine at Ørsted and Eversource’s South Fork Wind The news came less than a month after completion of the first operational turbine at the wind farm, which is located approximately 19 miles southeast of Block Island, Rhode Island, and 35 miles east of Montauk Point, New York.
South Fork Wind has now delivered its first offshore wind power to the Long Island...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday announced the completion of installation of the first offshore wind turbine for Ørsted and Eversource’s South Fork Wind, marking a historic milestone for New York’s offshore wind development and for what will be the first completed utility-scale wind farm in U.S.federal waters.
Once completed, the 130-megawatt offshore wind farm will address a growing reliability challenge for Long Island’s electrical grid, while also generating enough renewable energy to...
https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/offshore-wind/first-turbine-installed-at-south-fork-wind/
Ørsted and Eversource have awarded HeliService International Inc. a contract for helicopter crew change operations for the two companies’ joint venture wind projects in the Northeast United States.
The contract is the first helicopter contract to support the United States offshore wind industry and the two companies say it will create jobs and economic development in both helicopter assembly and future operations.
The Leonardo AW169 helicopters that will be used are powered by two Pratt and...