Offshore wind

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.

The areas are expected to have the potential to supply 2.4 GW of clean renewable energy.

This paper assesses the opportunity for an integrated and circular approach to developing the offshore energy sector for the energy transition. It evaluates how offshore wind, green hydrogen production, and heritage oil and gas expertise can be brought together to benefit all sectors to support a viable green hydrogen and wind economy.

Through a swap transaction, the Norwegian major will take over full ownership of the Empire Wind project from BP while the British major will take full ownership of the Beacon Wind project.

The strategy is part of larger interagency effort to promote recovery of the North Atlantic right whale while responsibly developing offshore wind.