As the U.S. offshore wind industry begins to build up, the U.S. Coast Guard is training to ensure it is prepared to respond to any potential emergency—even at 400 feet in the air.
Recent research conducted in Europe found that the construction of 35 wind turbines in the North Sea had no impact on the area’s lobster fishing grounds
Virginia must now ensure that offshore wind is done right — meaning it is brought online in a way that is fair, equitable and beneficial for all Virginia communities.
Dominion Energy has now announced, planning is underway to build the largest offshore windfarm in the United States off the coast of Virginia. By 2028, it will provide 2.6 gigawatts (gw) of energy annually: enough to power 650,000 homes.
Two wind turbines now rise higher than the Washington Monument off the coast of Virginia Beach, $300 million down payments on what state officials wager will be a new industry and a source of clean energy for the future.
Northam said the nation’s offshore wind industry could create 14,000 jobs in the state, ranging from people who assemble the turbines to those who ferry them out to sea.
Governor Ralph Northam today ceremonially signed landmark offshore wind legislation and led a delegation of legislators, industry members, and stakeholders to tour the ongoing construction of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind demonstration project located 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach.
Construction work at the first offshore wind farm in US federal waters, with lead-off foundations now installed at Dominion Energy and Orsted’s 12MW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) pilot site.
