The City that Never Sleeps will host two key offshore wind farm construction hubs, aiming at 9,000 gigawatts and beyond.
First it was Brooklyn. Now it’s Staten Island. Two different New York City boroughs are set to host new hubs for offshore wind farms, and both are claiming to be among the largest in the US. The two new hubs are further evidence that that US offshore wind industry is already back on its feet, despite the interfering fingers of fossil energy stakeholders and a series of other stumbling blocks.
Apollo also cited New York State’s target of 9,000 megawatts’ worth of offshore wind, part of a juicy East coast market that no investor would want to give up easily.In the meantime, New York State’s economic development agency, Empire State Development, was adding its muscle to the wind hub effort. In 2022 the agency announced that it won a $48 million grant from the federal Department of Transportation in support of the project.
The floating turbine angle is interesting because offshore wind sites in New York State and practically the entire East Coast are suitable for conventional fixed-platform construction. The water is shallow enough to park wind turbines on monopiles pounded into the ocean bed, so there is no need for the more delicate engineering feat of situating turbines on a, or the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is open to the idea of leasing offshore wind sites in deeper waters.
The project already has a client in the form of the 54-turbine, 810-gigawatt Empire I offshore wind farm, which comes under the umbrella of the firm Equinor.
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