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原文传递 Crunch Time

题名：	Crunch Time
正文语种：	eng
作者：	Jim Redden
摘要：	For starters, onshore infrastructure is currently not capable of producing the 2,100 giant wind turbines that the Department of Energy (DOE) said will be needed to meet the federal government's goal of generating 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind power by 2030. While some 40 GW are in the project pipeline, including 74 turbines on tap to begin generating power this year, only seven were spinning in U.S. waters at the end of 2022, delivering a combined 42 megawatts (MW) of power. The DOE estimates that installing those turbines, some well over 800 feet tall, in seven years will require up to six Jones Act-compliant wind turbine installation vessels (WTIVs) annually, along with assorted support vessels that will be necessary post installation. Only one WTIV is currently under construction in the U.S. Moving pending developments out of the pipeline and onto electrical grids will also require successfully navigating formidable supply chain bottlenecks. "There are more projects in the pipeline by developers than the supply chain can supply, the components, vessels and also manpower," said Sy Oytan, senior vice president of offshore wind projects for Avangrid Renewables, a Portland, Ore.-based subsidiary of Avangrid, which boasts projected East Coast offshore wind capacity of 5 GW.
出版年：	2023
期刊名称：	Work Boat
卷：	80
期：	1
页码：	16-19