New York simply put in its first offshore wind turbine

The primary wind turbine set up at South Fork Wind, New York State’s first offshore wind farm, is full.

The 130-megawatt (MW) South Fork Wind would be the US’s first accomplished utility-scale wind farm in federal waters.

The primary of 12 SG 11-200 DD Siemens Gamesa wind generators was hoisted into place on the venture web site 35 miles off Montauk, New York. 

Van Oord’s offshore set up vessel, the Aeolus, is putting in the generators. A crane locations the metal turbine tower onto the inspiration, after which the nacelle and rotor are put in on prime of the tower. Lastly, the blades are lifted and put in one after the other by bolting them to the rotor.

Danish renewables big Ørsted is collectively creating the offshore wind farm with Boston-based vitality supplier Eversource. South Fork Wind’s first offshore wind turbine basis was put in on the finish of June, and its first US-built offshore substation was accomplished on the finish of July.

South Fork Wind will produce sufficient clear vitality to energy 70,000 houses in New York. It should ship clear vitality on to the electrical grid in East Hampton by way of a single transmission line put in in March. The vitality produced might be offered to the Lengthy Island Energy Authority underneath the phrases of a 20-year settlement.

It should eradicate as much as 6 million tons of carbon emissions, or the equal of taking 60,000 automobiles off the highway yearly over a 25-year interval. 

A whole lot of US staff and three ports within the Northeast are supporting its development. All 12 generators are anticipated to be put in by the tip of 2023 or early 2024.

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Picture: South Fork Wind

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