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February 24, 2021 We’re getting new details about the United States’ first Jones Act-compliant offshore wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) seen as critical to developing the nation’s offshore wind industry. We just learned that the newbuild vessel currently under construction at the Keppel AmFELS shipyard in Brownsville, Texas for Dominion Energy will be built to ABS class . The 472-foot vessel is designed by GustoMSC to handle turbines of 12 megawatt or greater. It will also be capable of the installation of foundations for turbines and other heavy lifts. UK-based Seajacks will a...

Credit: ABS Maritime and offshore classification society American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) will class the first ever Jones Act compliant offshore wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), seen as a key vessel for the development of the U.S. offshore wind industry. With several gigawatts of offshore wind capacity to be installed along the U.S. East Coast in the next decade, access to Jones Act compliant WTIVs is of strategic importance to the U.S. offshore wind market. Currently, no such vessel exists. Dominion Energy last year contracted Keppel AmFELS, a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of Keppel ...

ABS to Class First Ever Jones Act Wind Turbine Installation Vessel The first ever Jones Act compliant offshore wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), a key vessel for the development of the U.S. offshore wind industry, will be built to ABS Class. Now under construction by Keppel AmFELS, which is also undertaking the engineering and procurement for Dominion Energy, the 472-foot vessel is designed by GustoMSC to handle turbine sizes of 12 megawatt or larger and will also be capable of the installation of foundations for turbines and other heavy lifts. To be named Charybdis, the vessel will ha...

American Indian Lifeways in the San Luis Valley is the next Science Sunday presentation by the Central Colorado Humanists on Feb. 7. Anthropologist Dr. Mark D. Mitchell, research director for Paleocultural Research Group, will guide the program starting at 10 a.m. on Zoom. Mitchell will explore the archaeology of the San Luis Valley, drawing on the results of recent public archaeology projects. The program will focus on the archaeological record of American Indians in the San Luis Valley - a record of hunting and gathering. All the indigenous peoples who called the valley home, from the earli...

New e-publication Americana Insights focuses on American Folk Art and Americana Dressing table, maker unidentified, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1815-1825. Painted and gilded maple and white pine; brass. H. 36 1/4 in., W. 36 7/8 in., D. 17 3/8 in. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Colonial Williamsburg. Photograph courtesy The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia. NEW YORK, NY .- Americana Insights, a new nonprofit e-journal and multi-faceted resource center, was launched today by Jane Katcher, Americana and American folk art collector, in collaboration with David A....