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BY BARRY PARKER (backed by Italian renewables specialist Renexia SpA, with (and, ultimately, routine operations). Codi? ed law (along participation from Apollo Global Management), off the with regulatory rulings) related to the Jones Act, which

Maryland coast. Following up on multiple leases awarded requires compliant assets for transporting people and in February, 2022, BOEM now intends to undertake a re- equipment between U.S. points (a WTIV jacked-up on gional review of multiple lease areas in the New York Bight the seabed is so de? ned), will continue to exert a powerful

Projects require a diverse complement of equipment, in? uence on operating practices, and equipment choices.

ranging from behemoth wind turbine installation vessels WTIVs, for installing the turbines, are tremendously (WTIV) down to more agile crew transport vessels (CTV), expensive. The two small ? elds currently operating in U.S. with service operation vessels (SOV) and others in be- waters (Block Island Wind- with ? ve 6 MW turbines, tween. The electrical side of projects requires cable instal- and a pair of similarly sized turbines operated off Virginia lation vessels. Presently, in the U.S. market, numerous sur- Beach by Ørsted for Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia vey vessels are active in advance of the actual installation of Offshore Wind, or CVOW) have utilized non Jones Act turbines, substations and underwater cabling. On the land WTIVs in conjunction with barging of components out side, ports from New England through the mid-Atlantic from the landside. Presently, one Jones Act compliant are already ramping up to support development of ? elds WTIV said to cost around $550 million, Charybdis, is un- www.marinelink.com MN 23|