On December 1, 2020, Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), announced that it has selected General Electric (GE) as the supplier of wind turbine generators for its Vineyard Wind 1 project.[1] Vineyard Wind 1 is an 800MW project located off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts and will be the first large-scale offshore wind farm in the U.S. As a part of this decision, Vineyard Wind has decided to temporarily withdraw its Construction and Operations Plan (COP) from further review by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in order to conduct a final technical review associated with the inclusion of GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X wind turbine generators. According to Vineyard Wind’s CEO, Lars T. Pedersen, the company believes that the move will avoid more federal delays and provide the shortest timeline for delivering the project. Vineyard Wind expects the review to take several weeks after which it will continue the permitting process with BOEM. The company still plans to reach financial close in the second half of 2021 and begin delivering energy to Massachusetts in 2023.

[1] https://www.vineyardwind.com/press-releases/2020/12/1/vineyard-wind-selects-ge-renewable-energy-as-preferred-turbine-supplier