New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced Equinor’s Empire Wind as a winner in? the state’s first large-scale competitive offshore wind project. The 816 ?megawatt (MW) offshore wind project will bring renewable energy to New York consumers, contribute ?to the State’s ambitious...
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Resolve Marine and Bibby Partnership Targets Jones Act-Compliant Offshore Wind Vessels
Resolve Marine Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with U.K.-based “walk-to-work” specialist Bibby Mariner Services to jointly develop Jones Act-compliant vessels for the emerging offshore wind sector in the United States. Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based, family owned Resolve has nearly...
Second Offshore Wind Farm in United States Now Under Construction
By Christopher Martin (Bloomberg) –Dominion Energy Inc. began work to install cables for a wind farm in the Atlantic Ocean near Virginia, marking the start of construction on the second such facility off the U.S. coast. The Richmond, Virginia-based utility owner is working with Denmark’s Orsted A/S...
Connecticut Set to Join in $70 Billion Offshore Wind Expansion
By Christopher Martin (Bloomberg) — Connecticut is set to massively increase investment in offshore wind after the state Senate passed a bill to require utilities to buy as much as 2 gigawatts of the renewable energy source, equivalent to almost a third of the state’s electricity needs. The bill...
New York’s Prized Scallops Face Off Against Offshore Wind
By Christopher Martin and Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) — Developers pushing to install massive wind turbines in the waters off New York and New Jersey have run into a delicate yet mighty foe: the Atlantic sea scallop. Prized for their sweet and tender meat, scallops are abundant off Long Island...
DNV GL to Class First Purpose-Built Offshore Wind Vessel in U.S.
Classification DNV GL on Wednesday announced it has been awarded a contract to class the first purpose-built offshore wind vessel built in the United States. The contract was awarded by WindServe Marine, LLC covering for offshore Crew Transfer Vessel for Ørsted North America. The contract covers...
Equinor, Joint Ventures Vie for Offshore Wind Power Park in New York
OSLO, Feb 15 (Reuters) – New York State said on Thursday it had received proposals from Norway’s Equinor and three joint ventures to build its first offshore wind power park of at least 800-megawatt capacity. The three joint ventures are Bay State Wind, between Danish Orsted and Eversource Energy;...
Mitsubishi Heavy Sees Billion-Dollar Opportunity in U.S. Northeast Wind
By Joe Carroll (Bloomberg) — Wind-power demand in the U.S. Northeast may spur $1 billion or more in orders for offshore towers, according to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America Inc. executives. Planned auctions for wind power in New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut...
Offshore Wind Firm Seeks to Disrupt New England Power Auction
By Stephen Cunningham and Christopher Martin (Bloomberg) — If Vineyard Wind LLC can’t participate in New England’s annual power-capacity auction, it wants to stop the event until it can. The developer of the first large-scale U.S. offshore wind project has asked the federal government to step in to...
How Betting $1 Million on Offshore New Jersey Wind Paid Off Big Time
By Christopher Martin (Bloomberg) — Over the past year, U.S. Wind got calls “every day” to sell a lease the energy company bought for $1 million in 2015 in its push to build a wind farm off the New Jersey coast. “Each time we’d say no,” said Salvo Vitale, the company’s chief counsel, but the offers...