First turbine installed at New York’s first offshore wind farm
The first Siemens Gamesa 11 MW wind turbine has been installed at the South Fork Wind Farm offshore New York.
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USA, New York: The first Siemens Gamesa 11 MW wind turbine has been installed at the South Fork Wind Farm offshore New York.
The first of South Fork Wind’s twelve Siemens Gamesa wind turbines was hoisted into place by the offshore construction team at the project site 35 miles off Montauk. South Fork Wind began construction in February 2022, beginning with the onshore export cable system that links the project to the local energy grid, completed early this year. The wind farm’s “steel in the water” milestone was reached in June 2023 with the installation of the project’s first monopile foundation.
Last month, the first wind turbine components for the wind farm were loaded onto a barge at the State Pier Terminal in New London, Connecticut. The turbines are being installed by Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel, the Aeolus, and all twelve turbines are expected to be installed by the end of 2023 or early 2024.
The 132 MW wind farm is located about 30 km (19 miles) southeast of Block Island, Rhode Island, and around 56 km (35 miles) east of Montauk Point, New York. All monopile foundations and the project’s offshore substation were installed this summer, and the wind turbine components started arriving in New London around the same time.
South Fork Wind, for which Ørsted and Eversource reached the final investment decision (FID) at the beginning of last year, will be New York’s first offshore wind farm and the first commercial-scale project of this kind to be built in the US.
Source: offshorewind.biz