Boskalis’s Bokalift 2 set up vessel is transporting and putting in the South Fork Wind foundations, underneath an settlement signed in June 2022. [Image: Ørsted]
South Fork Wind, New York’s first offshore wind farm, yesterday achieved its “steel in the water” milestone with the set up of the challenge’s first monopile basis. The improvement comes inside lower than a month of the Vineyard Wind challenge, off Massachusetts, reaching an analogous milestone. Both tasks are claiming “firsts,” with the 800 MW Vineyard Wind claiming bragging rights as “the first commercial-scale” offshore wind farm within the U.S. and the 130 MW South Fork Wind challenge being known as “the first utility-scale” offshore wind challenge within the nation by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who stated the metal within the water milestone, “cements New York as a national hub for the offshore wind industry.”
In the approaching days, South Fork Wind, a three way partnership between Ørsted and Eversource, will set up the challenge’s 1,500-ton, 60-foot-tall, offshore substation, designed and constructed by Kiewit Offshore Services, Ltd., at its Ingleside facility close to Corpus Christi, Texas.
With yesterday’s milestone, South Fork has formally entered its wind turbine set up section, the ultimate development interval on the 12-turbine, 130-megawatt wind farm. The challenge launched in February 2022, starting with the onshore export cable system. The challenge is one in all 5 offshore wind tasks New York State has in lively improvement, the biggest portfolio within the U.S.
Once accomplished, the wind farm will generate sufficient renewable power to energy roughly 70,000 properties serving to New York meet its formidable Climate Act objectives, whereas eliminating as much as six million tons of carbon emissions, or the equal of taking 60,000 automobiles off the highway yearly over a 25-year interval. Hundreds of U.S. employees and three Northeast ports will help South Fork Wind’s development by way of late fall serving to to face up a brand new home provide chain that’s creating tons of of native union jobs throughout the Northeast.
Boskalis’s Bokalift 2 set up vessel is transporting and putting in the foundations, underneath an settlement signed in June 2022.
Ørsted says that, throughout South Fork Wind’s development interval this summer season and fall, development and transport barges, tugboats, crew vessels, and guarded particular observer monitoring vessels shall be lively on the challenge website roughly 35 miles east of Montauk, N.Y.
Once in operation, South Fork Wind shall be supported by America’s first offshore wind Service Operations Vessel, in addition to U.S.-built crew switch vessels.
