American Clean Power Association (ACP)’s Post

On Thursday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) announced the completion of South Fork Wind, a 132-megawatt project by Danish energy giant Ørsted and Boston-based utility Eversource Energy. All 12 of the wind farm’s towering turbines are now in place and producing enough clean electricity to power roughly 70,000 homes in Long Island, New York. Construction on South Fork Wind last year represented a rare bright spot for the otherwise embattled U.S. offshore wind sector. Financial hardships and logistical challenges in 2023 hammered project developers, including Ørsted, leading to the delay or cancellation of around 12 gigawatts of offshore wind farms. Learn more: https://bit.ly/48UXtOe #newyork #wind #windpower #offshorewind #cleanenergy #renewableenergy

#Offshorewind in the U.S. is 20+ years in the making. NY’s South Fork Wind is the nation’s first commercial-scale offshore wind power farm to begin operations. https://lnkd.in/gJAtCxC6

#WindPower #OffshoreWindPower #USA #NewYork #Ørsted #Eversource #SunriseWind "Sunrise Wind, New York’s largest offshore wind farm, now has the final permit it needs from the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to start construction. Its permitted construction and operations plan outlines the offshore wind farm’s one nautical mile wind turbine spacing, the requirements for the construction methodology for all work in federal ocean waters, and mitigation measures to protect marine habitats and species. The 924-megawatt (MW) Sunrise Wind, a 50-50 partnership between Ørsted and Eversource, will generate enough clean energy to power nearly 600,000 New York households. It’s around 30 miles east of Montauk Point, Long Island, and is expected to be operational in 2026. Sunrise Wind’s team will now ramp up work on the onshore transmission system, and offshore construction will kick off later this year at the project site. The offshore power export cable will come ashore at Smith Point County Park in Brookhaven, New York, and a new converter station and an expanded existing substation will be in Holbrook, New York. New York’s largest offshore wind farm will create 800 direct New York jobs and thousands of indirect jobs. John R. Durso, president of the Long Island Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, said, “Hundreds of local trade union men and women will have good-paying jobs building Sunrise Wind onshore and offshore. Moving this project forward will help power our grid and our regional economy.” Sunrise Wind recently finalized its agreements with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) on a 25-year offshore wind renewable energy certificate (OREC) contract. It will help New York State achieve its mandate of 70% renewable electricity by 2030. The project previously canceled its contract, part of New York’s first offshore wind solicitation in 2019. Still, it reached viable power purchase agreements in February this year in the state’s fourth offshore wind solicitation."

Via Utility Dive: " Equinor-BP’s 2.1-GW offshore Empire Wind project receives federal approval: The U.S. offshore wind industry remains financially troubled, but industry groups are hopeful about recent moves forward for major projects. " #Energy #Utility #Utilities

The Brookhaven Industrial Development Agency has closed on a deal for Sunrise Wind’s transmission project that will connect its offshore turbines to Long Island’s electric grid. The IDA project will support the construction of 18 miles of transmission cables to a Long Island Power Authority facility in Holbrook, according to an IDA statement. Sunrise Wind is a 924-megawatt offshore wind project located about 30 miles east of Montauk. The project by itself will achieve roughly 10 percent of the state’s offshore wind goal of 9,000 megawatts by 2035, while also bringing $700 million of investment to Suffolk County and creating 800 direct jobs and thousands of indirect jobs in the state, according to Sunrise Wind’s joint venture partners Eversource and Orsted https://lnkd.in/eHXWKsCE

The US just greenlit the offshore wind farm Trump vowed to kill Shell-EDF’s Atlantic Shores South is the US’s ninth commercial-scale, offshore wind farm approved under the Biden administration – Trump wants to cancel it.  Atlantic Shores South consists of two wind farms — Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Project 1 and 2 — expected to generate up to 2,800 megawatts (MW) of electricity, enough to power nearly 1 https://lnkd.in/gGk3PQcu

It baffles me completely how anyone can believe wind energy viable to power a grid, or how anyone can believe there is ANYTHING desirable about ‘decarbonization.’ https://lnkd.in/gj9eydDc

The state of Mass. is going all in on wind power with this Salem project but the big question is: what's going to happen with the next RFP for offshore wind contracts? Vineyard Wind is under construction but two other wind farms for Mass. (not to mention many others along the East Coast) have been shelved because of higher interest rates and supply costs. Massachusetts is taking an interesting approach by teaming up with Connecticut and Rhode Island on the next wave of wind farm development but will it be enough to secure properly competitive bids?

A Rhode Island offshore wind project has been stalled after The Energy Facility Siting Board (EFSB) ruled that the 1,200 MW SouthCoast Wind must present new power purchase agreements for its application to proceed - SouthCoast Wind filed an appeal with the Rhode Island Supreme Court on July 27. The growing offshore wind industry in the U.S. is supported by President Joe Biden’s goal of 30 GW of capacity by 2030. However, economic uncertainties have threatened some of the first projects in development. In addition to SouthCoast Wind, Rhode Island Energy has pulled out of its PPA with Ørsted and Eversource for the offshore wind farm Revolution Wind 2, citing higher interest rates, increased expenses, and questionable federal tax credits. How will slowing investments in renewable projects affect future energy costs? Send us a message or contact your Energy Advisor for more details. #RhodeIsland #renewableenergy #windfarm #electricity

New Jersey’s efforts to establish a foothold in the offshore wind industry were buoyed Wednesday when it announced two new projects. New Jersey was ground zero for offshore wind woes in 2023. Now, it’s a testing ground for the industry’s recovery. State utility regulators awarded contracts Wednesday to a pair of the largest offshore wind projects ever planned in the United States. The two projects combined would generate enough power to supply 1.8 million homes and deliver an emissions cut equivalent to removing nearly 1.3 million cars from the road. https://lnkd.in/eqfgz2B4 #enviropolitics #njoffshorewind #njenergy #windenergy