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The US’s largest offshore wind farm just got its first monopile

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  • CopperC Offline
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    https://electrek.co/2024/05/23/us-largest-offshore-wind-farm-first-monopile/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2VzYr-Ktl1yhjBIAu2UCQjwOnX2zT0_v4gu-WTqkhWB3KKWqHoiGHmZWI_aem_AaOssH-GscEP0hb2JwJ6vxzGnbiwPP3pKzcfgrmicNuj7agBBF2QP1ACzBTJ-Cu1zBUSffRFcZnnMetXtrBuJfHX

    In a major milestone, the 2.6-gigawatt (GW) Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW), which will be the US’s largest offshore wind farm, has installed its first monopile foundation.

    The Orion, DEME Group’s heavy lift vessel, installed the monopile foundation approximately 29 miles off the Virginia Beach coast.

    CVOW, which is being developed and will be owned by electric utility Dominion Energy, will feature 176 Siemens Gamesa 14 megawatt (MW) wind turbines, three offshore substations, and new onshore transmission infrastructure.

    Once construction is complete in 2026, the US’s largest offshore wind farm will provide clean electricity for around 660,000 households and will support 1,100 jobs. It’s expected to generate fuel savings of $3 billion for customers during the first 10 years of operation.

    I saw this in Portsmouth a couple weeks ago.

    It is a big boat.

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    • MikM Offline
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      That's great. In 2023 there were 128.4 million households in the US, plus businesses. So we'd need about 200 of those.

      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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