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The vessels are designed by WI-ND Naval Architects based on the proven Inertia trimaran hull form, and in close collaboration with Sydney based high-speed craft experts One2three Naval Architects. Marsun Shipyard photo

Marsun Shipyard building twin trimaran crew transfer vessels

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The first Jones Act compliant offshore wind turbine installation vessel is currently being built by Keppel AmFELS at its Brownsville, Texas, shipyard for Dominion Energy. Dominion Energy rendering

BOEM opening environmental impact study for Virginia offshore wind

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Offshore wind developers are planning for 12- to 14-megawatt turbines as the 2020s industry standard. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management analysts say larger generators and higher altitude bring greater efficiency. BOEM graphic.

National Academies studying wind turbine impact on vessel radar

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The Ocean Wind turbine array off Atlantic City would send power ashore through two export cables, to the now-closed BL England coal generation plant in Cape May County and north to the former Oyster Creek nuclear generating station in Ocean County. Ørsted

New Jersey awards 2,658 megawatts in biggest U.S. pact

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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued its final record of decision for Vineyard Wind (blue crosshatched area), an 800-megawatt project to be built 15 nautical miles off Martha's Vineyard, Mass. BOEM graphic.

BOEM reviewing Vineyard Wind construction and operations plan

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Workboat + Wind Volume 2

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Red knots and horseshoe crabs on a Delaware Bay beach at Mispillion Harbor, Del., in 2019. Photo by Gregory Breese/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

Offshore wind developers fund shorebird study

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The new product utilizes a trussed rack fitted to the transom of a relatively small self-elevating vessel. Friede & Goldman rendering

Friede & Goldman offers feeder solution to offshore wind turbine installation

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BOEM officials say a new partnership with the Army Corps of Engineers will speed the review of offshore wind energy projects, including the planned Kitty Hawk turbine array off North Carolina. BOEM map.

BOEM, Corps of Engineers team up to speed offshore wind planning

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The Fisheries Survival Fund representing scallop fishermen urged BOEM to change its plans to offer offshore wind leases near important scallop habitat. Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal image.

BOEM to offer New York Bight wind leases; scallop fishermen urge delay

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Potential offshore wind foundations. Department of Energy image

Interior Department to look at offshore wind in the U.S. Gulf

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