The industrialization of the Atlantic Ocean is underway. South Fork Wind, America’s first utility-scale offshore wind farm, has begun delivering power to Long Island, New York.
“First power has started flowing to the grid,” Ryan Ferguson, Orsted’s head of corporate communications for the Americas, told The Epoch Times via email.
“Installation of all array cables, 13 foundations, including for 12 wind turbine generators (WTGs), the offshore substation, and five turbines has been successfully completed, with commissioning activities and installation of the remaining WTGs ongoing.”
This is a huge construction project, yet other planned wind farms are far more massive.
To describe what’s happening along the eastern coast of the United States, The Epoch Times examined construction documents for South Fork Wind and Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, two of the 29 active offshore wind lease areas....
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