Vineyard Wind 1 Begins Delivering 136+MW to Massachusetts Electric Grid: Additional Turbines Still Being Added

Avangrid, a sustainable energy company and member of the Iberdrola Group, and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), an investor in green energy and offshore wind development through its affiliate Vineyard Offshore, announced the delivery of more than 136 MW from the Vineyard Wind 1 project to the electric grid in Massachusetts. 

 

With this delivery, Vineyard Wind 1 is now the largest operating offshore wind project in the US. 

 

The project currently has 10 turbines in operation totaling approximately 136 MW, enough to power 64,000 homes and businesses in the Commonwealth. The project has also installed 47 foundations and transition pieces and 21 turbines, with installation of a 22nd turbine underway. 

 

The project will deliver 806 MW, enough clean electricity to power 400,000 homes and businesses in New England, once operational. Additional power will be delivered to the grid sequentially, with each turbine starting production once it completes the commissioning process.

 

The power from the project interconnects to the New England grid in Barnstable, which is transmitted by underground cables connecting to a substation further inland on Cape Cod. Upon completion, the project will consist of 62 wind turbines and generate electricity for more than 400,000 homes and businesses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

 

In addition, the project will create 3,600 Full-Time Equivalent job years, save customers $1.4 billion over the first 20 years of operation, and is expected to reduce carbon emissions by more than 1.6 million metric tons per year - the equivalent of removing 325,000 cars from the roads annually.