2500-tonne offshore wind farm installation ship delivered in Jiangsu - CGTN
2,500-tonne wind farm installation vessel delivered in Jiangsu - CGTN
A 2,500-tonne offshore wind farm installation platform was delivered for use in Qidong City, east China's Jiangsu Province, September 19, 2023. /CMG
A 2,500-tonne offshore wind farm installation platform was delivered for use in east China's Jiangsu Province on Tuesday.
The Haifeng 1001 platform has a crane with a lifting capacity of 2,500 tonnes. With the strongest lifting capacity and the deepest operating water depth in China, it will serve large-scale hoisting operations and construction of wind farms in deep and remote seas.
The platform is 133.8 meters long and 50 meters wide, and is designed with a self-sustaining capacity of 45 days and a cruising range of 3,000 nautical miles.
It can transport and install two sets of 20-megawatt wind turbines at one go, with a maximum operating water depth of 70 meters.
Also delivered on the same day was a 1,800-tonne platform, Haifeng 1002.
Equipped with a digital management system, the two platforms can achieve digital monitoring, provide intelligent data analysis and detect faults remotely.
Related Knowledge Center: Offshore wind energy
Over the next decade, U.S. offshore wind power is expected to grow from a single 30-megawatt wind farm off Rhode Island to more than 2,000 MW of capacity along the Atlantic Seaboard. There are contracts for wind power off the coasts of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Virginia.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has estimated the United States has over 4,000 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind potential, enough to power the country four times over.
The growth in part being spurred by state solicitations, including in New York, where then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) set a commitment of 9,000 MW of offshore wind by 2035, and in Connecticut, where in June 2021, Gov. Ned Lamont (D) signed legislation authorizing the construction of 2,000 MW of offshore wind by 2030.
The offshore development is also being driven by an investment tax credit set to end in December 2019 and is equal to 12 percent of expenditures. U.S. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Tom Carper (D-Del.) have introduced a bill to extend the tax credit for up to eight years.
The Interior Department has held eight competitive lease sales that resulted in 15 offshore wind leases over 1.7 million acres that has the potential for 21 GW of capacity. In February 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management completed a bidding process that realized $4.37 billion for 488,000 acres across six lease areas in federal waters off New York and New Jersey.
Projects have also been proposed off the Southeast coast, off California and Hawaii, and for the Great Lakes.