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Equinor has been granted approval by the New York State Public Service Fee (NYPSC) to construct and function offshore and onshore transmission amenities for the 816 MW Empire Wind 1 offshore wind undertaking.
The general transmission line for the Empire Wind 1 offshore wind undertaking runs roughly 17.5 miles (about 28 kilometres) from the boundary of New York State waters to a degree of interconnection in Brooklyn.
The section accepted on 13 February includes building actions inside Con Edison’s Gowanus substation property, together with excavation and set up of duct banks, cable pulling, website restoration, and related decommissioning.
The transmission undertaking contains two 230-kV high-voltage alternating present (HVAC) submarine export cables inside a 15.1-mile hall, working from the New York State waters boundary to the cable landfall in Brooklyn. Moreover, it encompasses a 0.2-mile onshore cable route and substation with two three-core 230-kV HVAC onshore export cables buried underground, connecting both on to the cable terminations or to transition vaults on the proposed onshore substation.
Additionally, there will probably be an onshore substation situated on the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal that can improve the voltage to 345 kV for the onshore interconnection cables, and two 345-kV cable circuits, every with three single-core HVAC onshore interconnection cables, that will probably be buried underground from the onshore substation to the purpose of interconnection on the Gowanus 345-kV substation owned by the Con Edison.
Situated 25-48 kilometres southeast of Lengthy Island, the 816 MW offshore wind farm will comprise 54 Vestas 15 MW generators.
The undertaking was beforehand owned by Equinor and BP, however in January 2024, the businesses reached an settlement to restructure the possession of their three way partnership offshore wind initiatives within the US, with Equinor taking full management of Empire Wind 1 and a pair of, and BP assuming full possession of the 2.5 GW Beacon Wind undertaking.
Firstly of 2025, the developer secured a undertaking financing bundle of over USD 3 billion and reached a monetary shut on Empire Wind 1.
The offshore wind farm is anticipated to supply first energy in late 2026, with full commissioning in 2027.
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