Dong planning world’s biggest offshore wind farm for U.S. waters

NEW YORK – Dong Energy A/S, the most prolific offshore- wind developer, is planning a power plant in U.S. waters that may eventually be the biggest in the world.

The Bay State Wind project about 15 miles (24 kilometers) off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts may have as much as 1,000 megawatts of capacity, according to a fact sheet provided Wednesday by Fredericia, Denmark-based Dong. The company acquired the lease for the site from RES Americas in a deal approved in June by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

Dong has been building offshore wind farms for 25 years and has 3,000 megawatts of installed capacity. The U.S. market is just getting started, with construction beginning in July on the first project, in Rhode Island. Bay State would be bigger than the 660-megawatt Walney Extension project the company is developing in the U.K., which is expected to be the world’s largest when complete in 2018.

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