EEW Special Pipe Constructions (EEW SPC), based in Rostock, Germany, has completed the heaviest monopile yet for the US’s first commercial offshore wind farm, Vineyard Wind 1. Weighing in at 1,895 tonnes, the steel monopile is part of a larger project that will turn more than 98,000 tonnes of steel into monopiles for the wind farm. The monopiles will each have a diameter of 9.6 meters (31.4 feet) and a maximum length of 85 meters (279 feet).
Vineyard Wind 1 is a $3.5 billion joint venture between clean energy company Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) funds CI II and CI III. It will feature 62 Haliade-X 13 megawatt (MW) turbines spaced one nautical mile apart and will supply clean energy for over 400,000 homes and businesses in Massachusetts, reducing carbon emissions by over 1.6 million tons per year.
In December, the first of 62 transition pieces to be manufactured for Vineyard Wind 1 was shipped to the US from Spain. The transition piece – a vital link in the offshore wind turbine – is made of steel and binds the monopile and the turbine together. Italian electrical cable company Prysmian Group’s cable-laying vessels, Cable Enterprise and Ulisse, are also in the US, installing submarine cables made and tested in Finland and Italy.
According to UMass Dartmouth and Springline Research Group, an analysis of job and expenditure data from the Vineyard Wind project collected from 2017 through September 2022 shows that Vineyard Wind’s reported numbers are twice the initial projections in terms of both jobs created and economic output. Vineyard Wind 1 is expected to come online this year.
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