Avangrid, the US affiliate of Iberdrola, has installed the first wind turbine of the 806 MW Vineyard Wind offshore wind project, located off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts (United States). The US$2.3bn project will consist of 62 units of GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X 13-MW turbines. The Vineyard Wind project is being developed jointly by Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), which launched its construction in November 2021 (offshore construction started in late 2022). First power is expected in late 2023 and the project should be fully operational in 2024.
In March 2022, the House of Representatives of Massachusetts passed a bill setting an offshore wind capacity target of 5.6 GW by 2027 (up from a proposed 4 GW target). Massachusetts already has 3.2 GW of offshore wind capacity under contract (including Vineyard Wind 1). In January 2023, the Department of Public Utilities (DPU) approved the Power Purchase Agreements for the 1.2 GW Commonwealth Wind and the 480 MW Mayflower offshore wind projects in Massachusetts. In May 2023, the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) unveiled a draft Request for Proposals (RfP) filed with the DPU to invite bids to procure 3.6 GW of offshore wind capacity to be developed in the state.
At the federal level, the United States targets 30 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and 15 GW of floating offshore wind capacity by 2035 (only 42 MW of offshore wind were operational at the end of 2022).
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