Offshore wind

GE Vernova and Vineyard Wind provided an update on the implementation of their plan to safely remove the remainder of the damaged blade on turbine AW-38, remove any remaining debris, complete environmental studies, implement actions for blade readiness for service, and, ultimately, resume turbine installation and operations.

By the end of 2025, a floating wind turbine will supply power to the operator’s Culzean platform in the Central North Sea.

The environmental analysis found no significant effects from issuing leases.

BMT and Ocius plan to deploy 1,000 autonomous vessels to collect data as “satellites of the sea.”

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) recently conducted an inspection at the South Fork Wind project, the bureau’s first inspection of an operational offshore wind turbine in US waters.

The exercise at Vineyard Wind’s Marine Coordination Center successfully evaluated Vineyard Wind’s ability to activate an incident management team and carry out the procedures in their approved oil spill response plans.

A recent study by researchers from the University of Strathclyde and published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews found injury rates for workers in offshore wind up to four time that of offshore oil and gas workers.

Projects across the globe are exploring the power of offshore wind in an effort to reach net zero.

The department says the four areas, totaling 410,000 acres, have the potential to power 1.2 million homes.

The bureau estimates that the project, previously known as Vineyard Wind South, would generate up to 2,600 MW of electricity, enough to power more than 900,000 homes.