In a significant milestone for the US offshore wind trade, wind turbine set up at Winery Wind 1, the US’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, is predicted to begin subsequent week.

The $3.5 billion Winery Wind 1, a 50/50 three way partnership between Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Companions (CIP) funds CI II and CI III, is 15 miles south of Martha’s Winery and Nantucket, and 35 miles from mainland Massachusetts.

The 806 megawatt (MW) offshore wind farm will characteristic 62 GE Haliade-X 13-megawatt (MW) generators spaced one nautical mile aside. They’ll every have a 220-meter (722-foot) rotor, 107-meter (351-foot) blades, and will likely be 248 meters (814 toes) excessive.

The vessel Sea Installer, which is owned by offshore vitality contractor DEME, will set up Winery Wind 1’s generators. DEME’s vessel Orion put in the offshore substation (above), which was formally unveiled yesterday – it’s additionally the US’s first offshore wind substation – and Orion is within the course of of putting in the wind turbine’s foundations now.

Turbine blades for Winery Wind 1 began to reach on the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal in Massachusetts in June.

As soon as the generators are put in and on-line, six generators will initially ship round 78 MW to the regional grid by mid-October. There are plans to ramp Winery Wind 1 as much as 200-300 MW by the top of 2023, and it’ll attain its full energy potential of 806 MW by mid-2024.

Winery Wind I’ll provide clear vitality for over 400,000 houses and companies in Massachusetts and cut back carbon emissions by over 1.6 million tons per yr, an equal of eradicating 325,000 autos from roads.

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Photograph: Winery Wind 1

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