The U.S. Bureau of Security and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has carried out an inspection on the South Fork Wind challenge, the bureau’s first inspection of an operational offshore wind turbine in U.S. waters.
Situated offshore New York and Rhode Island, the 130 MW South Fork Wind challenge is the nation’s first business wind farm on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).
BSEE is the lead federal company for growing office security and environmental compliance methods for offshore vitality initiatives on the federal OCS.
The inspection group evaluated South Fork’s threat evaluation, procedures and controls from the onshore management and coordination middle. Additionally they went offshore to look at management, coordination, pre-job planning, crew switch and drill efficiency in addition to to conduct a visible inspection of the turbine.
“BSEE will proceed inspections of each the offshore generators and the onshore management facilities and supply oversight of every operator’s security administration system by way of drills and workout routines, and evaluations of property and personnel administration,” says Cheri Hunter, BSEE Renewable Power operations director.
“These actions will be certain that lessees have the capabilities and technical experience to soundly function services in an environmentally accountable method all through your entire lifecycle of the windfarm.”
