Significant improvements have been made in subsea cable technology over the past ten years. About 80 percent of all offshore wind insurance claims involve the cables, making it a risky area for offshore wind farms.
The second solicitation for at least 1GW of offshore wind capacity in 2020 is being issued by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA).
The world’s largest single offshore wind project proposed to date, Dominion Energy’s proposed 2.64-GW Virginia Offshore Wind project, will likely feature Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) supplied turbines.
New York will create a training institute on Long Island for prospective employees of planned offshore wind farms. The state will spend $20 million on the offshore wind training institute, which will be housed at Stony Brook University and Farmingdale … Continued
NYSERDA is making available up to $5.5 million to support the collection of geotechnical and geophysical data from areas off New York’s coast that hold offshore wind development potential.
Leaders in states around the Gulf of Maine express support for offshore wind. This sets the region up to become the next battleground over the resource as objections are voiced from the area’s influential fishing industry.
Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia has proposed a budget that creates Virginia’s first Office of Offshore Wind.
Vineyard Wind’s proposed 804 megawatt (MW) Park City Project was selected for the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection’s 2019 solicitation for offshore wind facilities.
Nexans has initiated a framework agreement with Ørsted and Eversource to provide up to 1,000 km of subsea cables.
Governor Chris Sununu of New Hampshire signed an executive order to establish four advisory boards to prepare the state for offshore wind development.