Winery Wind 1 simply grew to become the US’s largest working offshore wind farm

5 extra wind generators simply got here on-line at Winery Wind 1, making it the biggest working offshore wind farm within the US.

Winery Wind 1 expands

Sustainable vitality firm Avangrid and inexperienced buyers Copenhagen Infrastructure Companions right now introduced that the Winery Wind 1 undertaking is now delivering greater than 136 megawatts (MW) to the electrical grid in Massachusetts. (New York’s South Fork Wind, the US’s first full utility-scale offshore wind farm, is 132 MW.)

In February 2024, Winery Wind delivered roughly 68 MW from 5 generators to the grid. Winery Wind 1 now has 10 generators in operation, sufficient to energy 64,000 houses and companies.

Every GE Haliade-X 13 MW turbine has a 220-meter (722-foot) rotor, 107-meter (351-foot) blades, and is 248 meters (814 ft) tall – roughly 2.7 instances taller than the Statue of Liberty. Every is able to offering energy to greater than 6,000 houses and companies.

The undertaking presently has 47 foundations and transition items put in, in addition to 21 wind generators, and the set up of the twenty second turbine is underway. As soon as accomplished, the undertaking will include 62 wind generators. Extra energy can be delivered to the grid sequentially, with every turbine beginning manufacturing as soon as it completes the commissioning course of.

Winery Wind 1, which is 15 miles off the coast of Martha’s Winery, can be New England’s largest renewable vitality facility as soon as absolutely operational, delivering 806 MW – sufficient clear electrical energy to energy 400,000 houses and companies. It started offshore building in late 2022, achieved steel-in-the-water in June 2023, and accomplished the US’s first offshore substation in July 2023.

In July 2021, Winery Wind signed the primary Undertaking Labor Settlement for offshore wind within the US, which outlined the creation of 500 union jobs. By December 2023, Winery Wind 1 had doubled its dedication by creating 937 union jobs via two years of building.

Electrek’s Take

Avangrid doesn’t say what the undertaking’s anticipated completion date is on this newest announcement. The $3.5 billion undertaking was initially anticipated to achieve its full energy potential by mid-2024, however I can’t see 52 extra wind generators coming on-line earlier than the tip of summer time, however extra actually will. Nonetheless, I count on this undertaking will acquire momentum now that the primary generators are on-line.

This offshore wind farm will show to be a incredible clear vitality asset within the face of New England’s winter peak demand. 

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