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In June, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that South Fork Wind, New York's first offshore wind farm, has achieved its "steel in the water" milestone with the installation of the project's first mono-pile foundation. Later this summer, South Fork Wind will install the project's U.S.-built offshore substation. The project remains on track to become the first U.S. utility-scale offshore wind farm to be completed in federal waters. The goal of the project is to develop 9,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2035. The announcement comes just a few weeks after the completion of the first monopile foundation at Vineyard Wind 1, the nation's first commercial-scale offshore wind project. An offshore installation vessel, Boskalis's Bokalift 2, is transporting and installing the foundations. South Fork Wind includes the first U.S.-built offshore wind substation. More than 350 U.S. workers across three states supported construction of this South Fork Wind substation, a topside structure that will collect the power produced by wind turbines and connecting it to the grid. |