By Colin A. Young Offshore Wind 0 Comments Oct 18, 2023
The Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners joint venture announced Wednesday that the installation of the first of 62 turbine generators that will make up the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind project has been completed about 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard, but project officials also backed off of a prior pledge that the project’s first power would begin flowing onto the grid this month. 5 Kw Wind Turbine
The completed turbine setup includes the tower, three blades, and one nacelle, the housing that contains a GE Haliade-X turbine. Fully assembled, it is “the largest turbine in the western world, with a nameplate capacity of 13 Megawatts, capable of providing power to more than 6,000 homes and businesses in Massachusetts,” the company’s said.
First turbine at Vineyard Wind goes up. (Photo courtesy of Vineyard Wind 1.)
In the joint announcement of the first turbine being completed, the only reference to power beginning to flow from Vineyard Wind 1 was Azagra’s mention of “this year,” a less specific timeframe than was offered by a top project official in August. An Avangrid spokesperson reiterated Wednesday that the project’s first power is expected “this year.”
Sy Oytan, Avangrid’s chief operating officer for offshore wind, said during a tour of the project’s construction that Vineyard Wind 1 would send its first power, generated by a string of six turbines for a total of about 78 MW, onto the grid by mid-October with plans to ramp the project up to between 200 and 300 MW by the end of the year and full commercial operations of 806 MW expected by mid-2024.
Vineyard Wind 1 is the only project Massachusetts has in its offshore wind pipeline, despite making significant moves to procure the cleaner energy generation since 2016. State officials have approved projects totaling 3,200 MW of capacity (Vineyard Wind is 800 MW of that), but developers behind subsequent wind farms said that shifting economic conditions made their projects no longer financially viable at the prices they previously negotiated and have secured state approval to terminate the contracts they signed.
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