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Vineyard Wind 1 just became the US’s largest operating offshore wind farm

Baua Electric

Photo: Avangrid Five more wind turbines just came online at Vineyard Wind 1, making it the largest operating offshore wind farm in the US. New York’s South Fork Wind , the US’s first complete utility-scale offshore wind farm, is 132 MW.) Each is capable of providing power to more than 6,000 homes and businesses.

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This old Texas wind farm now makes more power with fewer turbines

Baua Electric

An old wind farm in Texas just got a second life, and its capacity has gone from 160 megawatts (MW) to 182 MW. An old Texas wind farm gets a second wind The Brazos Wind Farm is in Fluvanna, in Borden and Scurry counties, in West Texas. But… thirty-eight wind turbines x 5 MW = 180 MW. It sits on around 10,000 acres.

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The world’s largest single-capacity floating wind platform has two turbines

Baua Electric

megawatt (MW) OceanX, with its double-turbine, “V”-shaped floating wind platform, is a game-changer. 180 hybrid drive wind turbines with blade diameters of 597 feet (182 meters) and a capacity of 8.3 180 hybrid drive wind turbines with blade diameters of 597 feet (182 meters) and a capacity of 8.3 It features two MySE8.3-180

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Solar, wind to lead US power generation growth for the next 2 years

Baua Electric

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that solar and wind will lead US power generation growth for the next two years in its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook. The EIA also expects wind power generation to grow 11% from 430 billion kWh in 2023 to 476 billion kWh in 2025. Get started here. –ad*

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This UK wind monopile factory will create 2,000+ jobs, become world’s largest

Baua Electric

Monopiles are steel tubes driven into the seabed that serve as the foundation for offshore wind turbines and support their weight and wind loads. The SeAH Wind Monopile Factory in Teesworks, spanning a vast 90-acre site, will produce monopiles weighing up to 3,000 tons. Teesworks is described as Europe’s largest brownfield site.

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Heavy-lift drones are flying cargo to offshore wind turbines in 4 minutes

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Photo: Orsted Danish renewables giant Ørsted is deploying heavy-lift cargo drones for the first time in an operational campaign at a Dutch offshore wind farm. The heavy-lift cargo drone will transport cargo from a vessel to all 94 wind turbines at the 752-megawatt (MW) Borssele 1 & 2 offshore wind farm. Get started here.

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The first wind farm on California’s coast just came online

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Photo: Strauss Wind The Strauss Wind Project in Santa Barbara County, the first wind farm on California’s coast, is now online. The 98-megawatt (MW) Strauss Wind is near Lompoc, on the Central Coast, with Vandenberg Space Force Base to the south, west, and northwest. Developer BayWa r.e. Get started here. –ad*

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