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In a historic first, a US offshore wind farm delivers power to the grid (electrek.co)

submitted 11 months ago by lntl@lemmy.ml to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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The first operational wind turbine at South Fork Wind sent clean power to Long Island today. The project has completed the installation of two turbines around 35 miles off Montauk, with all 12 SG 11-200 DD Siemens Gamesa turbines expected to be installed by early 2024.

The energy produced is being sold to the Long Island Power Authority under the terms of a 20-year agreement.

The 130-megawatt (MW) South Fork Wind will be the US’s first completed utility-scale wind farm in federal waters.

Lawnguyland! Something my people have done that I am proud of!

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[–] theforkofdamocles@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Excellent news. One bugaboo for me with a type of statistic lots of outlets use. That is, saying the new wind system will have the effect of taking 60,000 cars off the road over 25 years. They could say it would counter the emissions of over 3,000 cars every year.