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August 2024 U.S. Offshore Wind Update

Updated: Oct 3


WHAT’S INSIDE


  • Construction Updates - Progress updates on active U.S. Offshore Wind construction

  • Vessels - Updates on newbuilds and featured vessels

  • Speed Read - One-liners on significant events

             

Construction Updates


Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW)

  • Fifty (50) monopiles have been installed by the ORION as of August 13.

  • Unexploded Ordinance (UXO) relocation is ongoing along the export cable corridor. Rock installation vessel, FLINTSTONE is on-scene performing post-installation foundation scour protection.

  • Cable installation vessel LIVING STONE is on scene.


Revolution Wind

  • Fifty-two (52) monopiles have been installed as of August 20.

  • Wind Turbine Installation Vessel (WTIV) SCYLLA has begun installing wind turbine generator components.

  • The BOKALIFT 2 is installing monopile foundations while the BOKALIFT 1 installs secondary steel at existing foundations.

  • SEAWAY AIMERY arrived in Prov Port and is due to commence inter-array pre-lay grapnel run (PLGR) followed by inter-array cable installation.


South Fork Wind

  • Wind turbine installation is complete and the project is in final stages of construction.

  • PAUL CANDIES is performing wind turbine commissioning.


Vineyard Wind

  • Twenty-four (24) out of sixty-two (62) complete wind turbines have been installed as of August 20.

  • Forty-seven (47) out of sixty-two (62) monopiles have been installed as of August 20.

  • Forty-seven (47) out of sixty-two (62) transition pieces have been installed as of August 20.

  • The SEA CHALLENGER is on scene installing transition pieces.

  • The trenching support vessel (TSV) SYMPHONY is on scene performing post cable burial for the Vineyard Wind inter-array cable.

  • The cable installation vessel (CSV) CONNECTOR is on scene performing inter-array cable installation.

 

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Vessels

Windserve Frontier: Windserve delivered its fifth CTV from Senesco shipyard.


WINDSERVE FRONTIER at Senesco Marine shipyard in North Kingstown, RI


Visit the Wiki Wind Vessel Register to see more U.S. Offshore Wind Vessels. Find it here: https://www.wikiwind.us/vessels


Speed Read

  • Revolution Wind commissioning is pushed back from 2025 to 2026 due to onshore substation construction delays resulting from unexpected soil contamination.

  • Results of the multi-state (MA, RI, CT) offshore wind solicitation is pushed back from August 7, 2024 to September 6.

  • Equinor and Virginia Electric and Power Co. (Dominion Energy) have been provisionally awarded offshore wind lease areas by BOEM in the Central Atlantic offshore wind auction. Wind lease area OCS-A 0557 was awarded to Equinor and wind lease area OCS-A 0558 was awarded to Virginia Electric Power Co.

  • Eversource was awarded $389 million in federal funding for its Montville, CT based project under the Department of Energy’s Grid Innovation Program.

  • The University of Maine was granted rights to a wind lease area in federal waters near Portland, ME for a floating wind research array project.

  • The state of California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) finalized a plan to procure up to 7.6 gigawatts (GW) of floating offshore wind power.

  • Vineyard Wind has been allowed by BOEM to resume limited construction following structural damage to wind turbine generator (WTG) AW38.

  • Orsted contracted the rock installation vessel ACADIA, being built by Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD) as reported by GLDD’s Q2 2024 earnings release. The newbuild Jones Act vessel will work on Sunrise Wind project.

  • LS Cable announced plans to build a HVDC subsea cable manufacturing facility in Chesapeake, VA. The project represents a USD 681 million investment and is scheduled to begin construction in 2025 with completion in 2027.

 

 

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