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Wind: uring 2022, U.S. offshore wind has morphed Two commercial scale projects are now moving ahead; from a futuristic aspiration into something with work on electrical interfaces already underway. The approaching “business as usual” for the ? rst phase of the Vineyard Wind project (owned by Avan- maritime industry. With goals of expanding grid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Part- electricity generation from renewable sourc- ners), 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket,

D es, new offshore leasing initiatives by the Bureau of Ocean will see 62 GE Haliade-X turbines (each 13 MW), produc-

Energy Management (BOEM, part of the U.S. Depart- ing 800 MW of electricity. With a cable interface at Barn- ment of the Interior), and, where leases have already been stable (on Cape Cod), it will be tied into the electric grid. awarded- further progress in the chain of environmental Farther south, the smaller South Fork project (to be devel- and other approvals, have created a pipeline of real projects oped by Ørsted and Eversource) in waters east of Montauk along the U.S. East Coast. “Getting to yes” is complicated, will see 130 MW produced by 12 Siemens Gamesa 11 with leases in Federal waters awarded by BOEM, and pur- MW turbines. (with an interface near Wainscott, Long Is- chases of electric power handled by individual states, with land, N.Y.). Projects moving along in the requisite approv- many stakeholders participating in reviews of environmen- als process include Ocean Wind 1 (Ørsted and PSEG), in tal impacts and construction plans. waters off New Jersey, and an initial phase of US Wind 22 | MN October 2022