This spring, the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) authorised the turbine construction offshore Rhode Island and New York for the South Fork project , after the Department of the Interior transferred regulations governing offshore renewable energy activities, including workplace safety and environmental compliance, from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to BSEE in January.
South Fork Wind, for which Ørsted and Eversource reached the final investment decision (FID) at the beginning of last year, will be New York’s first offshore wind farm and the first commercial-scale project of this kind to be built in the US.
The first offshore wind farm of this scale to be approved is the 800 MW Vineyard Wind 1 in Massachusetts , which is also under construction with the first wind turbines soon to be installed. However, being a bigger project than South Fork, Vineyard Wind 1 will be completed and put into operation in mid-2024.
The 132 MW South Fork Wind is scheduled to be operational by the end of 2023.
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