Is 132 Mw considered large? I thought that would be sort of middling. The nearest wind farm to me puts out somewhere around 200 Mw iirc? What is impressive is that they can generate 132 with only a dozen turbines. That’s 11 Mw per turbine. Those things must be absolutely huge! The ones near me generate maybe a quarter as much power. So maybe it’s the first large turbine wind farm?
I think “large” is relative to the Coastal Virginia and Block Island off-shore wind projects in the US, which are 12 MW and 30 MW respectively. Those are more like pilot projects.
I agree those off-shore turbines are absolute units. I would love to take a boat ride past one to get a feel for the scale.
I looked up 11 MW offshore wind turbine and it came back with this one. Not sure that’s the model they’re using, but it says the diameter of the blades alone is 200 m. Picture a 60-storey building and maybe add another 10 or so for how much bottom clearance the blades have and you’re basically looking at 12 moving skyscrapers. That would indeed be a sight to see!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Kathy Hochul went to Long Island Thursday to announce that the turbines are delivering clean power to the local electric grid, flipping a massive light switch to “turn on the future.” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was also on hand.
She said the completion of South Fork shows that New York will aggressively pursue climate change solutions to save future generations from a world that otherwise could be dangerous.
With South Fork finished, Ørsted and Eversource are turning their attention to the work they will do offshore beginning this spring for a wind farm more than five times its size.
Ørsted, formerly DONG Energy, for Danish Oil and Natural Gas, started aggressively building wind farms off the coast of Denmark, the U.K. and Germany in 2008.
Last year brought challenges for the nascent U.S. offshore wind industry, as Ørsted and other developers canceled projects in the Northeast that they said were no longer financially feasible.
High inflation, supply chain disruptions and the rising cost of capital and building materials were making projects more expensive as developers were trying to get the first large U.S. offshore wind farms opened.
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