Vestas wins first V172-7.2MW onshore wind turbine order
Vestas wins first V172-7.2MW onshore wind turbine order | Windpower Monthly
Vestas has secured the first firm order for its V172-7.2MW onshore wind turbine.
It will supply six of the turbines to the 43MW Hoßkirch wind farm in Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany.
German developer Uhl Windkraft is developing the project alongside the Comital house of Koenigsegg-Aulendorf, historic landowners in the area.
Vestas will supply and commission the turbines, and then service them for 25 years after commissioning.
Turbine delivery is due to begin in the second quarter of 2025 ahead of project commissioning in the third quarter of 2025.
Vestas’ V172-7.2MW turbine is designed for low-to-medium-wind speeds.
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.