Winery Wind 1, America’s first large-scale offshore wind farm, has begun delivering vitality to the New England grid from 5 of its deliberate 62 GE Haliade-X 13 MW wind generators. The models are presently producing 68 MW of vitality, sufficient to energy 30,000 houses in Massachusetts, in keeping with the builders of the mission, Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Companions (CIP).
The wind turbine set up marketing campaign for the 806 MW Winery Wind 1 started in September 2023. A month later, the primary GE Haliade-X 13 MW unit was put in on the web site some 15 miles (roughly 24 kilometres) off the coast of Massachusetts by DEME’s jack-up Sea Installer.
On 2 January, Winery Wind delivered roughly 5 MW of energy from one turbine to the grid. Following that milestone, the mission has offered energy from every of the primary 5 generators intermittently, because it ramped as much as preliminary operations, in keeping with Avangrid.
The ability from the mission interconnects to the New England grid in Barnstable, transmitted by underground cables that hook up with a substation additional inland on Cape Cod.
“Throughout Massachusetts, in 30,000 houses and companies, while you activate the sunshine, you’ll now be utilizing clear, reasonably priced vitality. This may make the air we breathe safer and more healthy, save prospects cash, and produce us one step nearer to reaching net-zero emissions,” stated Maura Healey, Governor of Massachusetts.
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Building of your complete Winery Wind 1 mission runs by the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal.
At present, the mission has put in 9 wind generators and is within the course of of putting in the tenth, with preparations underway to move the eleventh unit to the offshore mission web site, Avangrid stated.
Extra energy will likely be delivered to the grid sequentially, with every turbine beginning manufacturing as soon as it completes the commissioning course of.
The Winery Wind 1 offshore wind farm will include 62 GE Haliade-X 13 MW wind generators. As soon as accomplished, the mission will generate electrical energy for greater than 400,000 houses and companies in Massachusetts.
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