Keppel Lands $0.6 Billion Offshore Wind Contract
by Ship & Bunker News Team
Thursday December 17, 2020 Singaporean shipbuilder The
Dominion Energy. The vessel will be build at Keppel s US base, according to Singaporean news provider the Straits Times. Called
Charybdis, Dominion Energy s president and chief executive,
Robert Blue, said that building the vessel represented monumental step for the offshore and wind industry in the US. Wind energy, a reneweable energy source, is viewed as a viable way of cutting carbon emissions. In 2017, offshore wind accounted for
9% of the UK s energy demand, according to renewableUK. In the US, around
Ship & Bunker News Team
by A Siegel
Offshore wind is a complex and enormous capital construction domain. Among other requirements, specific ships jack ships that extends legs to the sea floor and jacks up above the sea for a stable construction platform are required for the actual putting together of the massive wind turbines at sea. To date, there is no U.S. flagged jack ship that can support construction. The limited projects to date, such as Dominion’s two-turbine project that begin operations earlier this year, have used leased European ships. Due to U.S. law, specifically the Jones Act, using non-U.S.-constructed and crewed ships greatly complicates and constrains U.S. offshore wind construction. Dominion, with its accelerating path toward a massive 2.6-gigawatt wind farm off the Virginia coast, announced today that it is investing $600 million to address this bottleneck.
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