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Late this year, the 472' Charybdis is expected to leave the Keppel AmFELS Brownsville, Texas, shipyard and begin work as the only Jones Act-compliant wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) in U.S. waters, while a uniquely engineered foreign-owned installation vessel is set to follow two years later. "Charybdis is expected to be in service ahead of the 2024 turbine installation season," said a spokesman for Dominion Energy Inc., which ordered the vessel to install up to 180 turbines at its Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project off Virginia Beach, Va. First, however, the Charybdis will deploy to New London, Conn., where it has been subchartered to Orsted and Eversource for installation work at the Sunrise and Revolution wind farms off New York and Connecticut, respectively. Both projects are slated to go online in 2025, while construction of the CVOW project is expected to be completed by year-end 2026, the spokesman said. |