US Offshore Wind Farm Progress — Chart

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The quantity of offshore wind producing capability that’s beneath building or deliberate in the US is in flux after two tasks in New Jersey had been canceled final 12 months. Of the 7,200 megawatts (MW) of capability reported in Could in EIA’s newest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventorytasks totaling about 2,400 MW have been canceled since final December whereas others totaling 4,800 MW stay energetic in numerous levels of growth.

Canceled

In late 2023, developer Orsted canceled the two,400-MW Ocean Wind 1 and a pair of tasks in New Jersey, citing rising rates of interest, excessive inflation, and provide chain delays.

Beneath building

One offshore wind mission is at present beneath building, and one other is awaiting industrial operation. Each tasks are anticipated to start operation in 2024. The 130-MW South Fork Wind mission is awaiting industrial operation. It consists of 12 generators positioned off the coast of Lengthy Island, New York. The mission started generating electricity in March however has but to achieve industrial operation, a stage when an operator formally declares a producing unit as on line and out there for industrial dispatch. It’s not uncommon for electrical mills to supply vitality whereas they conduct assessments for weeks or months forward of the ability being positioned into industrial operation.

The mission beneath building is the 800-MW Winery Wind 1 mission positioned offshore of Martha’s Winery, Massachusetts, and it’s partially constructed. Of the 62 generators, 10 had been in place as of this previous February in keeping with the mission’s co-owner Avangrid. The entire mission is anticipated to be on line by this fall.

Deliberate and going ahead

Different tasks are in numerous levels of planning and growth.

Two tasks have began constructing foundations to help offshore wind generators. This previous spring, builders Orsted and Eversource started building the vertical cylinders often called monopiles to help wind generators on the 704-MW Revolution Wind mission positioned offshore of Rhode Island. In Could, Dominion Power built the first monopile on the 1,265-MW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) Business Undertaking. The CVOW Business Undertaking follows a 12-MW pilot that Dominion introduced on line in 2021.

Though these tasks have began foundational work, Revolution Wind and CVOW Business Undertaking nonetheless present as pending regulatory approvals and never but in building as a result of mills have latitude to resolve when to label a mission as in building. Within the Type 860M, some mills label a mission as in building after they begin constructing parts, however different mills can wait till the development course of is additional alongside. Revolution Wind is anticipated on line within the fall of 2025, whereas Dominion Power plans to begin CVOW in early 2027.

The 924-MW Dawn Wind mission is considered one of two energetic tasks that New York State awarded in February, and builders Orsted and Eversource count on to deliver it on line in 2026. Equinor has but to report back to EIA the second energetic mission, the 810-MW Empire Wind 1as a deliberate mission.

Deliberate and scaled down or on maintain

Different tasks in Maryland and Ohio, which builders nonetheless report as energetic, have confronted some setbacks.

In January, Orsted withdrew from commitments to the Maryland Public Service Fee to construct the Skipjack 1 and a pair of tasks, totaling 966 MW, however remains to be persevering with with superior growth and allowing.

Late final 12 months, the developer of the 20-MW Icebreaker Wind mission on the Ohio coast of Lake Erie halted the mission amid rising prices and lack of funding.

Principal contributor: Stephanie Tsao. Article from Today in Energy.