offshore wind energy

Ørsted, EEW plan $250 million offshore wind monopile center in New Jersey

Offshore wind developer Ørsted and specialty steel fabricator EEW say they will develop a $250 million facility to manufacture monopile components for the entire U.S. wind industry at the port of Paulsboro, N.J. N.J. Governor's Office rendering.

Offshore wind developer Ørsted and specialty steel fabricator EEW say they will develop a $250 million facility to manufacture monopile components for the entire U.S. wind industry at the port of Paulsboro, N.J., on the Delaware River.

Gov. Phil Murphy billed it as “the largest industrial offshore wind investment in the United States to date” creating more than 500 skilled jobs at build-out, “jobs at a time when New Jersey’s economy has been ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic.” A groundbreaking is...

https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/orsted-eew-plan-250-million-offshore-wind-monopile-center-in-new-jersey/

Keel laid for first U.S.-flag offshore wind turbine installation vessel

Dominion Energy's 428'x184' wind turbine installation vessel is under construction at the Keppel AmFELS shipyard at Brownsville, Texas. Dominion Energy rendering.

Construction of the first U.S.-flag, Jones Act-compliant offshore wind turbine installation vessel marked a milestone Dec. 16 with laying the keel for the Dominion Energy vessel.

The 472’x184’x38’ WTIV will be one of the largest in that class, with a Huisman main crane boom length of 426’ and lifting capacity of 2,200 tons – enough the handle the next generation of 12- to 14-megawatt turbines standing over 800 feet tall.

The vessel is under construction by global marine shipbuilding firm Keppel...

https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/keel-laid-for-first-u-s-flag-offshore-wind-turbine-installation-vessel/

BOEM pushes back final findings on Vineyard Wind

The Deepwater Wind power array off Block Island. Deepwater Wind photo.

A sweeping environmental review of the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project is now tracking to be finalized Jan. 15, as the federal Bureau of Offshore Energy Management completes its review of public comments.

BOEM received more than 13,000 comments on its Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Vineyard Wind, a planned 800-megawatt turbine array off southern New England, according to an agency spokesperson.

The final EIS is to be published Dec. 11, with the agency issuing its final record...

https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/boem-pushes-back-final-findings-on-vineyard-wind/

Biden administration would boost offshore wind

An incoming administration under president-elect Joe Biden will bring strong support to the emerging U.S. offshore wind energy industry, likely paving the way for additional federal lease offerings, according to industry analysts.

“For the offshore wind industry, a President Biden is a far more positive development,” said Sarah Vilms of Squire Patton Boggs, a law and lobbying firm with offices in Washington, D.C.

With his intent to return the U.S. to the Paris climate agreement vacated by...

https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/biden-administration-would-boost-offshore-wind/

NOAA scientists study how offshore wind construction noise may affect black sea bass

Wild black sea bass in a 32,000-gallon research aquarium at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center's James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory at Sandy Hook, N.J.

Scientists at federal fisheries laboratories are investigating how sound generated by the construction and operation of offshore wind turbines may affect black sea bass – a valuable species in the Northeast that is attracted to underwater structures like turbine foundations.

“No one knew for sure how much black sea bass can hear and how that changes as they age,” said Beth Phelan, a fishery biologist at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center’s laboratory at Sandy Hook, N.J. and a co-author of...

https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/noaa-scientists-study-how-offshore-wind-construction-noise-may-affect-black-sea-bass/

First offshore wind research buoys deployed off West Coast

An offshore wind research buoy in California's Morro Bay is one of two now deployed off the West Coast. U.S. Department of Energy photo.

The U.S. Department of Energy has deployed two offshore wind research buoys off California for the first time, an early step toward potential leasing of wind energy sites in the Pacific.

Funded by the Bureau of Offshore Energy Management, the buoys’ mission is to gather meteorological and oceanographic data in potential wind energy areas, according to the DOE Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which is managing the program.

One buoy is on station off the northern California coast, over depths...

https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/first-offshore-wind-research-buoys-deployed-off-west-coast/

Federal grant for Maine offshore wind

Maine Aqua Ventus is a proposed 12 MW wind turbine demonstration project off the coast of Maine. University of Maine image.

Maine is getting a $2.16 million grant from the federal Economic Development Administration to map out plans for an offshore wind energy industry, and join other Northeast states already promoting their own vast hopes for turbine arrays.

“Unleashing American innovation is critical to our global competitiveness,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said in announcing the grant Oct. 1. “This project will allow Maine to capitalize on its technical leadership in the wind power sector to diversify...

https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/federal-grant-for-maine-offshore-wind/

Edison Chouest to build first Jones Act offshore wind service vessel

Edison Chouest Offshore will build a 260' service operations vessel for Northeast offshore wind turbine projects. ECO image.

Edison Chouest Offshore will build and operate the first U.S. flag, Jones Act compliant service operations vessel for the offshore wind industry, partnering with wind developers Ørsted and Eversource, the companies announced in a joint statement Oct. 1.

Under a long-term charter agreement, ECO will engineer, build and operate the vessel, to be based in New York State and perform operations and maintenance on the Revolution Wind, South Fork Wind and Sunrise Wind projects planned off southern New...

https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/edison-chouest-to-build-first-jones-act-offshore-wind-service-vessel/

Offshore industry says drilling moratorium endangers wind power too

Ørsted's Burbo Bank Extension Wind Farm in the Irish Sea. The Denmark-based energy company will develop 1,100 MW of offshore wind power east of Atlantic City, N.J. Ørsted photo

President Trump’s announcement extending an offshore drilling moratorium off North Carolina will block future development of additional wind energy areas, a prominent industry group warns.

Trump’s election campaign with its surprise executive orders extending a moratorium on waters off Florida up the Atlantic coast brought dismay from the offshore oil industry, long promised widespread opening of new lease areas by Trump.

The next Sept. 25 extension of the order to North Carolina brought...

https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/offshore-industry-says-drilling-moratorium-endangers-wind-power-too/

Congress could act to limit foreign workers in U.S. offshore wind

Foreign-flag vessels and crews employed in the early stages of U.S. offshore wind energy are undercutting opportunities for American mariners, an industry spokesman told members of Congress Tuesday.

At an average pay around $70,000 “marine jobs are just the kind of jobs that government policy should be promoting, said Aaron Smith, president of the Offshore Marine Service Association told members of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.

But during 2020, 12 to 15 foreign flag...

https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/congress-could-act-to-limit-foreign-workers-in-u-s-offshore-wind/

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