Cadeler’s Wind Scylla installs first wind turbine for Revolution Wind Offshore Wind Farm in the US

Cadeler has installed the first wind turbine for the 704 MW offshore wind farm project Revolution Wind southeast of the Connecticut coast in the USA, utilizing their state-of-the-art Offshore Wind Installation Vessel Wind Scylla vessel.

The Revolution Wind project site is located roughly 15 miles south of the Rhode Island coast and 32 miles southeast of the Connecticut coast. The project by Ørsted and Eversource is Rhode Island and Connecticut’s first large-scale offshore wind farm and the first multi-state offshore wind farm in the nation.

Revolution Wind will utilize 65 Siemens Gamesa turbines, the same 11-megawatt turbine model used at the recently completed South Fork Wind which is adjacent to Revolution Wind. Wind Scylla arrived in the US after a comprehensive dry-dock work scope in France followed by the mobilization immediately thereafter. It is Cadeler’s first US project.

Once in operation, Revolution Wind will have the capacity to generate 400 megawatts of clean, affordable offshore wind power for Rhode Island and 304 megawatts of the same for Connecticut, enough to power the equivalent of more than 350,000 homes and bring both states closer to reaching their climate targets.

Meanwhile, offshore construction crews continue to make steady progress installing the foundations for the turbines, with more than three-quarters of the foundations now in place offshore. Revolution Wind’s offshore construction phase is powered by hundreds of union workers, three Northeast ports, and a variety of vessels – all supporting work to install the wind farm’s foundations, two offshore substations, inter-array and export cables, and wind turbines. All the work is done according to Revolution Wind’s local, state and federal approvals and with the strictest safety standards.  Source: Ørsted Image: Kate Ciembronowicz/Orsted