Dominion Proposes Largest Offshore Wind Farm in UNITED STATE
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Virginia- based electrical energy service provider Dominion Energy is recommending the United States’ biggest overseas wind growth off Virginia’s shore.
The proposition is for a 2,600-megawatt industrial overseas wind growth that will certainly increase to consist of 220 wind generators offering renewable resource for as much as 650,000 residences by the year 2026.
If authorized, the task would certainly lie approximtely 27 miles off the shore of Virginia Beach on 112,800 acres that Dominion Energy has actually rented the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
Dominion has actually currently submitted an application with PJM, the local transmission company that works with the electric grid in all or components of 13 states and also the District of Columbia, to adjoin the recommended generators to the transmission grid.
Following the crucial declaring, sea study job is anticipated to start in 2020 and also a Construction and also Operations Plan will certainly be sent in 2022.
“Offshore wind is an excellent renewable energy source and this filing with PJM shows how serious we are about bringing commercial-scale offshore wind to Virginia, giving our customers what they have asked for – more renewable energy,” claimed Mark D. Mitchell, vice head of state of generation building. “Governor Ralph Northam has made it clear Virginia is committed to leading the way in offshore wind. We are rising to this challenge with this 2,600-megawatt commercial offshore wind development.”
Like Dominion’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) task, which is prepared for startup in 2020, Dominion intends to move on with the recommended task in 3 stages, each amounting to 880 megawatts. The initial stage of the buildout will certainly sustain first generation of wind power by 2024, with extra stages will certainly come online in 2025 and also 2026, amounting to greater than 2,600 megawatts of power, sufficient to power 650,000 residences throughout height wind.
The firm started building in June on the 12MW CVOW task, which is the initial totally allowed wind task in united state government waters.
