First Turbine Up at 704 MW Revolution Wind Project in US

Three New England ports are playing central roles in the effort to build the 704 MW Revolution Wind project.

State Pier in New England, Connecticut, is serving as the staging and marshalling port for the project, where the turbines are being assembled by local union labor. Ørsted and Eversource have invested more than USD 100 million in the State Pier redevelopment project.

“New London State Pier has cemented itself as one of the premier wind turbine marshaling hubs in the country, and we are proud to be playing a significant role in the construction of Connecticut’s first offshore wind farm and the first multi-state project in the country,” said Ulysses Hammond , Connecticut Port Authority Executive Director.

In Providence, teams are handling loadout of the foundation components, which were built by more than 125 local union workers at Ørsted and Eversource’s construction hub at ProvPort .

ECO Edison , the first American-built, owned, and crewed service operation vessel (SOV) , is based out of ProvPort during Revolution Wind’s construction, while the project’s crew helicopters and Rhode Island-built crew transfer vessels (CTVs) are based out of that state’s Quonset Point.

Onshore construction on the project’s transmission system continues in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.

Last month, Ørsted announced that the 704 MW Revolution Wind offshore wind farm will not go into full commercial operation next year but in 2026. Mads Nipper, the company’s group president and CEO, explained the postponement was due to a delay in the construction of the project’s onshore substation.

The Revolution Wind project site, located about 15 miles south of the Rhode Island coast and 32 miles southeast of the Connecticut coast, is adjacent to Ørsted and Eversource’s South Fork Wind , America’s first utility-scale offshore wind farm.

When it comes to Ørsted, the company recently marked the groundbreaking for another neighbouring project, the 924 MW Sunrise Wind.

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