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FLOATING WIND

Charybdis will be the ? rst

WTIV ever built in the United

States and one of the largest globally. The vessel’s main crane will have a boom length of 426 feet and an expected lifting capacity of 2,200 tons.

Dominion Energy

European bidders

Floating wind, however, is still at an (bvb|&v ?ubm] early stage. Five sites in federal waters

CMA-| off the Californian coast have recently

Booth 131 been auctioned, with capacity esti- mates ranging from 4.5 GW, according to the Bureau of Energy Management (BOEM), to 8 GW, a developer estimate.

Interest shown by European bidders was notable, with Avangrid, Copenhagen

Investment Partners, Equinor, Hexicon,

Iberdrola, and Ørsted all keen for a seat at the table.

The procedures required in the per- mitting process for ? oating installations – including site assessments, construc- tion and operation plans, and technical and environmental reviews – are likely to take most of this decade. First power is unlikely before 2032.

Other ? oating sites on the BOEM’s list, according to Intelatus data, include two deepwater locations in the Central

Atlantic region; Coos Bay and Brook- ings off the coast of Oregon; and the

Gulf of Maine’s commercial lease with- in the next two years. These facilities m|;um-?om-?!;]bv|ub;vkm1l [email protected] bm-L?b-?om?b|_|_;-uv_-??v?-m7v are likely to have total capacity of more -ub?l;sourou-|;7lbmbv|u-|ouv www.register-iri.com than 6 GW.

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