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The South Fork project Lease Area OCS-A 0517 is located within federal waters on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), approximately 19 miles southeast of Block Island, Rhode Island, and 35 miles east of Montauk Point, New York. [36] South Fork Wind's lease area is adjacent to Revolution Wind and nearby the proposed Vineyard Wind lease area.
Officials marked the completion of the South Fork Wind Farm, a 12-turbine project off Rhode Island that is supplying power to New York. It's the nation's first utility-scale offshore wind farm.
Kitty Hawk North Wind: Offshore North Carolina OCS-A 0508 [49] 24 nmi east of Corolla (NC) 122,405 acres (49,536 ha) NC: 800: Up to 69: Avangrid Renewables [50] [51] [52] Leading Light Wind Offshore New Jersey OCS-A 0542 30 nmi east of NJ NJ: 2,400 2031 Invenergy. energyRE NJBPU [39] MarWin: Offshore Maryland OCS-A 0490 [53] 26 nmi east of ...
South Fork is now the first fully operational commercial-scale offshore wind project in the United States. To see it is to be overcome by both the immensity of the wind turbines themselves, and ...
The waters off New England’s coast are some of the best in the US for the production of reliable clean wind energy. In fact, it is already underway. Commentary: A vision of clean energy hope ...
The first offshore wind farm, Block Island Wind Farm, began operation in 2016. [2] The first commercial-scale (greater than 100 MW) offshore wind farm, South Fork Wind in federal waters offshore Rhode Island, was fully commissioned on March 14, 2024. As of May 31, 2024, total offshore wind power was 174 MW. [3]
Danish wind energy developer Ørsted and the utility Eversource built a 12-turbine wind farm called South Fork Wind 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of Montauk Point, New York.
There are a handful of turbines currently operating offshore in the U.S., generating electrical energy by using wind to rotate magnets inside a coil of conductive wire. But South Fork is ...