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US Wind contract Baltimore Based Businesses

By: Matthew White 23/04/2018 US Wind, Inc.

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US Wind, Inc. has selected two Baltimore firms for a range of services related to the fabrication and installation of a meteorological tower necessary for environment activity monitoring.

Strum Contracting Company (SCC), a minority-owned full-service provider of steel, welding services and light fabrication products, will provide welding services for the installation of the meteorological tower.

The tower is comprised of an intricate steel lattice construction with sensors located at the top of the structure which are used to collect information about the environment.

The company will also be providing welding services in support of improvements to the port of Baltimore, necessary to sustain the infrastructure for the increased maritime business activity generated by the Offshore Wind project.

Strum Contracting will also provide quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) services of the steel foundation fabrication activity, to ensure construction and welding of the structure is in accordance with the US industry standards.

US Wind, Inc. has also contracted Baltimore-based Maritime Applied Physics Corporation (MAPC) for the procurement and installation of instrumentation and power equipment for the meteorological tower.

The data collected through this equipment will be used for the final design, financing and a performance warranty of the wind farm. MAPC will procure and install sensors to be placed on the steel lattice meteorological tower for wind measurement, wind direction, air temperature, air pressure, precipitation, relative humidity, lightning detection, and bat detection.

In addition, an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) will be used to measure water current velocities. MAPC will be also responsible for the Collision Avoidance Equipment and the Power System.

MAPC is an employee-owned research and development company that works on hulls, unmanned marine and land vehicles, and motion compensated land, air, and marine vehicle launch and recovery systems.

US Wind was approved to receive offshore renewable energy credits (ORECs) on May 17, 2017. The project, involving the placement of 32 wind turbines at a distance of 17 miles from the Ocean City shoreline, (as far east in its federally designated wind energy area as possible) will have a power output of approximately 250MW of energy and create over 7,000 jobs during the development, construction and operating phases, as well as an investment of $1.4 billion and an in-state economic impact of $1.35 billion.

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