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GE's Haliade-X turbines to be installed at Vineyard Wind 1

By: Tom Russell 02/12/2020 Vineyard Wind

General Windfarms

Vineyard Wind has selected GE as its preferred supplier of wind turbine generators for the Vineyard Wind 1 project. The project will utilise GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X wind turbine generators, the company's most powerful turbine in operation to date.

Vineyard Wind 1, an 800 MW offshore wind farm to be located 15 miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, is slated to be the first commercial scale offshore wind farm in the United States. This is expected meet the energy needs of over 400,000 homes and businesses. Vineyard is aiming to have the project operational by 2022. The project is being developed by Vineyard Wind LLC based in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The company is owned by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and Avangrid Renewables, each holding a 50% stake.

“The selection of GE as our preferred turbine supplier means that a historic American company will play a vital role in the development of the first commercial scale offshore wind power in the U.S.,” said Vineyard Wind CEO Lars T. Pedersen. “This is a huge moment not only for the future of our project, but also for the future of an industry that is poised for exponential growth in the coming decades.”

“GE Renewable Energy is proud to partner with Vineyard Wind for the first major offshore wind project in the US,” said John Lavelle, President & CEO, Offshore Wind at GE Renewable Energy. “To be selected as the preferred supplier is an important sign of confidence for our proven technology and for all our employees around the world. We look forward to making this important contribution to the growth of offshore wind in the US.”

As a part of reaching this important milestone, Vineyard Wind has decided to temporarily withdraw its Construction and Operations Plan (COP) from further review by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), in order to allow the project team to conduct a final technical review associated with the inclusion of the Haliade-X into the final project design. This information was formally communicated to BOEM yesterday (1 December 2020).

“While the decision to pause the ongoing process was difficult, taking this step now avoids potentially more federal delays and we are convinced it will provide the shortest overall timeline for delivering the project as planned,” continued Pedersen. “We intend to restart the BOEM process from where we left off as soon as we complete the final review.”

The company expects its review to take several weeks, after which Vineyard Wind will resume the Federal permitting process with BOEM. With buffer built into the project schedule, Vineyard Wind still expects to reach financial close in the second half of 2021 and to begin delivering clean energy to Massachusetts in 2023.

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