Offshore Wind Farm Construction to Begin Soon
The U.S. Department of the Interior approved it in November, and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued its approval letter for the construction and operations plan, a major step in the federal process before construction can start.
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Construction will soon begin on the second commercial-scale, offshore wind energy project to gain approval in the United States, the developers said.
Orsted, a Danish energy company, is developing the South Fork Wind project with utility Eversource off the coasts of New York and Rhode Island. They now expect the work onshore to begin by early February and offshore next year for as many as 12 turbines.
President Biden has set a goal to install 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030, generating enough electricity to power more than 10 million homes. In November, work began on the first commercial-scale offshore wind farm in the United States, the Vineyard Wind 1 project off the coast of Massachusetts. Read the story here.
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