RECHARGE
WHY EUROPE
IS KEY TO US
OFFSHORE
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foget Americas rt freshwater Despite the lackof pliteal consensus assistance from Eranti with
ofihore wind farm afloat the in Withington DCabout he role fabrication duc to take place inthe
[resident ofthe Lake Erte Economic of ofshore winds the country’s US. The design willemploy a cone
Development Corporation (LEEDCo) energy mix. by the time President tached to the foundation at water
turned to Burope for help with critcal Barack Obama leaves fice in| vel to Break up large sheets fe.
und technical expertise, January 2017, the Department of Tred Olsen Windearrers
8 the Interior willhave ssved atleast. developing an installation strategy
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know how to dothisstufl-So, when energy angry Eat Cons The fist assets such as barges quay facilis
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uropean parnersin the 19.2MW land project off Rhode Island by then. turbines, while Geom Giraffe iin
Ieebreaker project planned for Lake The White House wants to talks wah mainly foreign lenders,
Ene thus far include Finnish se transform the USintoa global Americans wll earry out geotechnical
‘expert Franti Engineering, Norway's offshore wind lade, andhascaled surveys (Case Westera University)
Fred Olsen Windeatrir, Freneh forthescctortoadvance onthree and environmental permitting
financial adviser Green Gitale Energy fronts developing and deploying (Environ) and a US Atm Corps of
Bankers, Offshore Design Engineering innovative UStechnologysutising Engineers laboratory will monitor and
(ODE) from the UK and Germany's existing mantime assets infastructure trac ie rds
Siemens tnd manafactering capacity and Key roles in Americas to most
"The bigest technical challenges go henefting from the wealth of European advanced offshore wind projects
along with the project being the fist experience in he sect ‘are also being played by European
of aking. Start-up issues are what TEEDCo has perhaps gonethe companies
furthest in embracing hisstrategy. For Block sland, Alstom is
says Wagner. "“That isthe primary The detailed engineering on its supplying five of ts MW Hilde
feason wereached outto many of innovative ce-breaking foundation turbines from Francs with the
the companies on our team that design ~ funded by 382.5m ‘Blades mansafatured by LM Wind
have offshore experience. They Department of Energy (DOE) grant Power in Denmark, while Fred OlenPretopranhy/LERCES Alstom
the turbines.in the third quarter of
2016. The US subsidiary of the UKs
‘National Grid will install, own and
‘operate the transmission cables and
substation.
European developers are also keen
include ltaly’s Renexia; the UK's RES
RES
‘ground floor in the US market, which
itexpects to be big. “We are looking to
offshore as the next challenge forus”
‘And one of |
meet its. potential and build out its
‘huge pipeline will largely be upto the
politicians.
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