Empire Wind

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Empire Wind 1
CountryUnited States
LocationOCS-A 0512 Offshore New York
(Hudson North)[1]
Coordinates40°19′45″N 73°30′28″W / 40.329226°N 73.507861°W / 40.329226; -73.507861Coordinates: 40°19′45″N 73°30′28″W / 40.329226°N 73.507861°W / 40.329226; -73.507861
StatusProposed
Wind farm
TypeOffshore
Distance from shore14 miles (23 km)
Power generation
Make and modelTBA
Nameplate capacity816 MW
External links
WebsiteEmpire Wind
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Empire Wind is a proposed utility-scale offshore wind farm on the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore New York.[2] It will be located in Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) lease area OCS-A 0512 (known as Hudson North)[3][4] in the New York Bight about 14 miles (23 km) south of Jones Beach, Long Island.[5] The first phase of the project is expected to have a 816MW nameplate capacity generated by 60-80 wind turbines (each with an installed capacity of more than 10 MW). Total investment will be approximately US$3 billion. The project will be able to power over 500,000 homes in New York and was expected to come on line in late 2024,[6][7] but postponed to late 2026.[8]

History[]

On September 8, 2011, the New York Power Authority, Long Island Power Authority, and Con Edison (the Offshore Wind Collaborative) filed a request with BOEM to issue a commercial lease on the outer continental shelf for the development of the Long Island - New York City Offshore Wind Project. This project would be located in the Atlantic Ocean off approximately 13 nautical miles off Nassau County in a long 65,000-acre wedge-shaped area between shipping channels, directionally aligned southwest of Rockaway Peninsula. The proposed project would have consisted of 97 offshore turbines, with a total nameplate generating capacity of 350MW. (With 194 turbines, generating capacity could be doubled to 700MW) Given the lengthy permitting process, the Collaborative's proposed project would not be operational until 2018 at the earliest. On January 4, 2013, BOEM issued a Request for Interest (Docket ID: BOEM-2012-0083) to determine whether other parties were interested in developing the same area.[9]

The project won a competitive procurement for offshore wind renewable energy credits (ORECs) from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)[3][10] and is being developed by Equinor and BP, the latter of which acquired a 50% stakehold in the project in January 2021.[11]

Aker Solutions is one of the companies that has been contracted for a front-end engineering and design (FEED) to study the design and delivery of concrete foundations for the wind turbine.[12] The project will support the development of a large offshore wind assembly port located at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal in Sunset Park, Brooklyn and wind-turbine tower manufacturing at the Port of Albany–Rensselaer.[13][14]

NYISO issued a "facilities study" on June 14, 2021, requiring the project to be grid connected by June 14, 2025. Empire posted $42.6 million to secure that interconnection with Consolidated Edison. The project includes substations onshore and offshore, connected by 46 miles of cabling. The cables will be supplied by a new factory built buy Nexans in Charleston, South Carolina.[15]

The permission process and large project timeline is longer than the 4 years between NYISO study and first power delivery, and Empire requested an extension to the timeline.[8] Empire prefers the Vestas V236-15 MW wind turbine for the project.[16]

Wind farm Offshore BOEM wind energy lease area States Coordinates Capacity
(MW) 		Completion year Turbines Developer/Utility Regulatory agency Refs
Empire Wind 1 Offshore New York
OCS-A 0512
(Hudson North)[1]		 12 nautical miles 14 miles (23 km) south of Jones Beach Island, Long Island (NY) at New York Bight 79,350 acres (32,110 ha) NY 816 2026 60-80 Equinor
BP		 NYSERDA [3]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Lease OCS-A 0512; Bureau of Ocean Energy Management". www.boem.gov.
  2. ^ "Empire Wind - 4C Offshore". www.4coffshore.com.
  3. ^ a b c "New York's Offshore Wind Projects". NYSERDA.
  4. ^ "New York Bight; Bureau of Ocean Energy Management". www.boem.gov.
  5. ^ "BOEM New York Bight lease area map".
  6. ^ "StackPath". www.tdworld.com.
  7. ^ "Empire Wind Project, Offshore New York, USA". www.power-technology.com.
  8. ^ a b Van Voorhis, Scott (15 October 2021). "Empire Wind pushes opening of New York's first offshore wind farm to 2026". Utility Dive. Archived from the original on 15 October 2021.
  9. ^ "New York Activities | Bureau of Ocean Energy Management". www.boem.gov.
  10. ^ "New York awards record 1,700 MW offshore wind contracts". Utility Dive.
  11. ^ "BP completes stake acquisition in offshore wind farms from Equinor". www.power-technology.com.
  12. ^ "Aker Solutions Wins FEED Contract for Empire Wind Project in the U.S." Aker Solutions.
  13. ^ ""Hundreds of Jobs" - Equinor Picks Port of Albany for Offshore Wind Tower Making Facility". Offshore Engineer Magazine. November 13, 2020.
  14. ^ ""Empire Wind" News". www.oedigital.com.
  15. ^ "Nexans Opening First US Subsea Cable Plant in November". Offshore Wind. 22 October 2021. Archived from the original on 22 October 2021.
  16. ^ Blenkey, Nick (18 October 2021). "Empire Offshore Wind selects giant 15 MW Vestas turbines for two NY wind farms". Marine Log. Archived from the original on 18 October 2021.
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