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Only one wind turbine is left to be installed at the Vineyard Wind 1 site off Massachusetts, according to the project owner’s complaint filed with the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The 806 MW offshore wind farm was planned to be completed by 31 March and start delivering power at full capacity to the state’s grid when the US Department of the Interior (DOI) issued a stop-work order.
The offshore wind farm’s completion is now in jeopardy with the government’s 90-day suspension, since the vessel that is being used for installation has been contracted for a period under the current project schedule that has 31 March as the completion date, the Vineyard Wind joint venture says in the complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief submitted on 15 January.
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Vineyard Wind 1 is 95 per cent completed, with 61 of the total 62 GE Haliade-X 13 MW wind turbines installed and the offshore and onshore electrical infrastructure necessary to deliver power to the New England grid ready.
The offshore wind farm is currently capable of producing electricity from approximately 572 MW of installed capacity coming from 44 operational wind turbines , with additional capacity originally scheduled to come online over the coming weeks as more wind turbines are put into operation, the developer said in the filing.
Offshore work left to be done consists primarily of installing the one remaining wind turbine, replacing blades on ten wind turbines, and bringing the remaining 18 wind turbines online.