拜登政府将于5月11日对期待已久的最终批准，以在美国建造的第一台商业规模的海上风电场，并在联邦水域（800兆瓦的葡萄园风项目）允许在马萨诸塞州海岸建造。
这项耗资28亿美元的项目预计在2019年预计但是被延迟了by a last-minute Trump administration order to dramatically broaden its environmental impact review that was followed by a permit process halt last December.
The Biden Administration, which has set a goal to have 30 GW of U.S. offshore wind online by 2030, restarted the approval process.
Vineyard Wind, a joint venture of Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, won the first Massachusetts offshore wind solicitation in 2018. Its final approval from the U.S. Interior Dept. includes permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and others.
A second Massachusetts project, the 804-MW Mayflower Wind being developed by Shell and EDF Renewables, will have itsfirst public forumon May 18. It is being sited on a 192-sq-mile federal lease site 20 miles south of Nantucket Island.
The federal lease for Vineyard Wind was awarded in 2015, followed by its submittal of federal and construction applications two years later and the successful bid for the Massachusetts contract in 2018.
该公司预计该项目将在2021年下半年获得该项目的财务关闭，然后将施工开始，其中包括与马萨诸塞州巴恩斯特郡的变电站的电缆连接。它将在2023年底开始运行。
Tne projectreached agreement去年10月，与新英格兰电网运营商一起将其电源连接起来。
葡萄园风的生理记录仪d of decision (ROD) "is not about the start of a single project, but the launch of a new industry," Lars Pedersen, CEO of Vineyard Wind said in a statement, noting the “long road” to reach the federal approval.
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The project is approved for 84 wind turbines, but by using General Electric 13-MW capacity Haliade X turbine, it can can deliver 800 MW with 62 turbines, Vineyard Wind said. The turbines will be spaced one nautical mile apart in an array that was endorsed by the U.S. Coast Guard for fishing and navigational safety.
Avangrid首席执行官丹尼斯·阿里奥拉（Dennis Arriiola）在5月6日的收益公告中说，所有与供应商和承包商的主要葡萄园风构建合同均已确保，该公用事业公司在5月6日的收入公告中说，该公用事业公司正在最终确定“最佳融资结构评估”，包括税收平等和项目融资。
马萨诸塞州建筑交易总裁弗兰克·卡拉汉（Frank Callahan）说：“掌握了杆，我们最终可以开始创造该项目将带给我们州和地区的良好工会工作。”美国商务部长吉娜·雷蒙多（Gina Raimondo）表示，该项目将根据项目劳动协议建立。
She was Rhode Island governor when the first U.S. offshore wind project, sized at 30 MW off the state's Block Island, was completed in 2017. A pilot 12-MW project also operates in federal waters off the Virginia coast.
Vineyard Wind has agreed to provide an estimated $37 million to Massachusetts and Rhode Island fishing industries for potential loss of revenue and to .improve movements in and around the lease area.
马萨诸塞州项目还将继续为马萨诸塞大学和州龙虾钓鱼贸易小组提供资金，以衡量海洋环境的影响，加上“投资数百万美元来开发和部署创新技术”，以保护“以保护”，以保护“以保护”，以保护“州宣布，北美右鲸非常濒临灭绝。
Turbines will be located a minimum of 15 miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard and will be painted to reduce visual impacts to historical properties, project officials said.
葡萄园仍然必须提交一份设施设计报告以及制造和安装报告，该报告提供了针对该公司联邦批准的建筑和运营计划后如何制造和安装项目的具体详细信息。
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Meanwhile. Massachusetts announced May 10 it plans to award contracts for two additional projects totaling up to 1.6 GW in December, its largest ever single solicitation.
投标将于9月23日到期，将于12月17日定于12月17日进行项目选择，并于2022年3月签订合同，并于2022年4月批准。
Construction will be financed with power contracts with three electric utilities—Eversouce, National Grid and Unitil.
这是在葡萄园风与五月花风项目之间分配的1.6 GW的补充，该项目于2019年批准。后者定于2025年运作。
The Baker administration said the larger contracts could bring costs down through economies of scale. Economic development potential and cost to ratepayers will be important factors in the selection, the state said.
Lease rights off the Massachusetts coast are held by Vineyard Wind, Equinor, Mayflower Wind and Bay State Wind, all of which can compete for the new contracts.
But the new state contracts will require bidders to provide detail on workforce diversity efforts for themselves and their suppliers, as well as potential for economic development and "environmental justice" impacts. That component of the bids now will make up 30% of scoring, with price 70%, compared to a 25%-75% split in previous bidding.
3月制定的新马萨诸塞州气候立法还要求该州的公用事业公司在2027年之前获得2.4吉瓦的海上风。
Projects that start construction before 2026 can gain a 30% federal investment tax credit.
明年在纽约和康涅狄格州罗德岛附近的联邦和州海洋产能的大约3 GW也将拍卖。
