The record-breaking ocean lease will power close to 2 million homes. But it also has the potential to improve supply and labor chains in the US.
Meanwhile, the offshore wind industry is investing millions of dollars in a domestic supply chain, which includes factories, port upgrades, vessels, and workforce training, according toThere is still a long ways to go. “The offshore wind supply chain in the United States is nascent,” says Brandon W. Burke, a managing consultant for Ramboll, a Denmark-based firm that advises offshore wind energy developers.
Due to the sheer size and height, building a turbine’s foundation and components takes a lot of consideration. A single blade can be as long as 351 feet, or more than 124 baseball bats laid end-to-end. These extremely long turbine components are transported out to sea after being built or assembled at a port to minimize time spent on the water.
The limited number of wind turbine installation vessels means there’s an especially tight bottleneck in the US for new projects, Burke says. Last year,was commissioned for $500 million as the first WTIV to sail with a US flag. Owned by Dominion Energy, the 472-foot ship is currently being built in the Gulf of Mexico and will use more than 14,000 tons of domestic steel.will fill a gap in the US wind farm supply chain, chipping away at American reliance on European manufacturing.
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