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April 15, 2021, by Nadja Skopljak Joint venture partners Ørsted and Eversource are establishing a manufacturing facility for offshore wind foundation components at ProvPort in Rhode Island, United States. The new 228-foot long facility will be used for advanced fabrication and assembly of foundation platforms for the companies’ offshore wind projects in Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York. Ørsted and Eversource also reached a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) with the Rhode Island Building and Construction Trades Council and general contractor Dimeo Constr...

This would be the first offshore wind farm in New York State.

Photo: Shutterstock. A proposal to build a 15-turbine wind farm in federal waters 30 miles east of Montauk Point came closer to fruition when the East Hampton Town Board approved two agreements with South Fork Wind, LLC.   A press release issued by theTown says that the project would be the first offshore wind farm in New York State.   The turbines will produce enough clean, renewable energy every year to power 70,000 homes, according to a fact sheet available on South Fork Wind’s website.   South Fork Wind is a joint venture between Ørsted, a multinational power company based in...

The East Hampton Town Board will accept public comments on the latest draft of its agreements to allow the cable from the South Fork Wind Farm to be placed under town roads at its Tuesday, Jan. 12 work session, which begins at 11 a.m. The Host Community Agreement and a separate Easement Agreement allow South Fork Wind, LLC to place the transmission cable in the roadbed along about 4.1 miles of town roads from the landing site at Beach Lane in Wainscott to an electric substation on Cove Hollow Road in East Hampton, in exchange for $28.9 million in benefits to the town over the next 25 years.

US: BOEM releases draft environmental analysis of the proposed South Fork Wind Farm 07 Jan 2021 America-First Offshore Energy Strategy, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has announced that it will publish a draft environmental analysis of the proposed South Fork Wind Farm and is requesting public comment. The draft environmental analysis, referred to as the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), analyzes the potential environmental impacts of the proposed action described in the South Fork Wind Construction and Operations Plan and reasonable alternatives to the proposed acti...