Avangrid has awarded TDI-Brooks a shallow water geotechnical web site investigation survey at block OCS A-0508, often known as Kitty Hawk Wind. The information collected will inform the design of the export cable and inter-array packages.
The scope of labor consists of using a TDI-Brooks’ owned Datum Neptune 5K (pCPT) at 155 websites and a newly-designed TDI-Brooks pneumatic vibracorer (pVC) at 80 websites. The pVC is a lightweight weight (4,600-lb in air), excessive energy vibracorer and has been efficiently deployed on the US East Coast >200 occasions for offshore wind farm (OSWF) initiatives. The pVC can be utilized for cores as much as 6-m in size (and right down to 9-m or 12-m with body extension). Upon completion of the geotechnical vibracoring, all samples are despatched to the TDI-Brooks’ ISO-certified geotechnical and environmental laboratories in College Station, Texas for testing. TDI-Brooks operates from a neighborhood port off Bridgeport, Conn. and plans to make the most of the RV Marcelle Bordelon, a short-term vessel of alternative. The fieldwork is predicted to be accomplished by mid-July.
With every offshore wind mission carried out, the operator contracts illustration from the native fishery group to accompany the survey. This consultant is onboard through the length of the survey to make sure communication and coordination takes place with the native fishermen. The fishery illustration ensures the survey vessel stays clear from all fishing gear and fishing areas. In addition to a fishery presentative, a Protected Species Observer (PSO) is deployed to assist business and educational marine actions by conducting monitoring onboard the vessel to attenuate any potential impacts on species encountered.
The goal of the mission is to develop a commercial-scale, offshore wind power facility in Commercial Lease OCS-A 0508, with as much as 69 whole wind turbine turbines, an offshore substation, inter-array cables, an onshore substation, and as much as two transmission cables making landfall in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and connecting to the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland (PJM) Interconnection power grid. This mission is meant to considerably contribute to the area’s electrical reliability and assist Virginia obtain its renewable power objectives as acknowledged within the Virginia Clean Economy Act.
