Updated 6.19 p.m.
Since the shadow of uncertainty continues to branch off over the offshore wind industry, a company recently awarded 50 positions from its salary statement.
Vineyard Offshore, an offshore wind company founded by the same team, which Vineyard Wind established, recently launched 50 positions in the USA and Europe. According to an offshore spokesman for the vineyard, the eliminated positions included not occupied roles, contractors and employees.
The spokesman did not say whether one of Martha's offshore employee from the vineyard of Martha or other parts of the southeastern Massachusett came, even though he found that the Vineyard Wind employees would not be affected.
“Vineyard offshore believes that offshore wind is an essential part of the nation's future energy independence,” says a declaration of corporate. “Our projects will provide over 6 gigawatts with reliable and affordable energy in order to cover the growing energy requirement on the east and west coast, at the same time to create thousands of jobs and to promote economic growth. In order to position our projects for sustainable long -term success, we have made the difficult decision to reduce our current team size in the face of recent market unconcursions. We look forward to driving these transformative American energy projects further in the coming years. ”
Vineyard offshore is part of the development of several projects financed by Copenhagen infrastructure partners who have half of the Weinbergswinds with Avangrid, and a big project you want to bring forward is the Vineyard Wind 2 project, which used to be called Vineyard Northeast becomes. Vineyard Wind 2 should be a 1,200 megawatts project -enough to supply around 650,000 houses with electricity -although Vineyard Offshore was required to do so Pull the project back In December, after a power contract with Massachusetts and Connecticut.
The project is facing further roadblocks, whereby the Trump administration promises to stop projects that have not completed it.
Vineyard Offshore is also involved with Excelsior Wind south of Long Island, NY, and an unnamed project off the California coast.
Vineyard Wind 1, 15 miles south of Martha's Vineyard, delivered the power supply last year, although production was destroyed with the project after a blade. Officials say that Vineyard Wind 1 was not influenced by the layoffs
“The Vineyard Wind project, including its employees and contractors, remains unaffected by Vineyard Offshore's changes. The shareholders are fully obliged to ensure the successful completion of the project, ”said a spokesman for the Offshore vineyard.
Vineyard wind officials previously said that Vineyard Wind 1 is expected to produce around 90 jobs in Iceland During the operating and maintenance phase of the project, with half of the positions of people live full-time on the island. The attitude was underway last year, although it is currently uncertain how many islanders are part of the Wind Work workforce.
Vineyard Wind 1, an 806-megawatt-offshore wind project, which is to consist of 62 turbines, will probably supply more than 400,000 houses and companies in Massachusetts. A Map The company shows that all 62 turbine foundations were installed and 24 turbines were built completely from February 18.
According to the Nantucket Select Board, Vineyard Wind is still removing the Federal Government's command on the rental area. The order came as an answer after a blade was broken in July. Every blade built in a Canadian factory be removed and replaced.
Brooke Mohr, chairman of the Nantucket Select board, told the board on Wednesday last week that the order Blade sets from 22 turbine towers had to be removed and replaced. After Mohr spoke on Wednesday afternoon before the meeting with Vineyard Wind officials, he said that so far only four blade sets have been removed.
She expected the removal of blades to accelerate because the developers are expected to have a new ship that can transport five blades at the same time, although Mohr said that she received no concrete details.
The release of Vineyard Offshore followed continued turbulence for the offshore wind industry. Last month in one Effort to improve the offshore wind industryPresident Donald Trump gave out one Executive order Setting the approval of new permits in new leasing areas for offshore wind. The order also offered a way to end other projects, including vineyard winds. In addition, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Elizabeth Klein, whose agency approved numerous offshore wind projects as part of the bidges administration, recently released, reported Windpower Monthly.
Even before the Trump administration focused on the offshore wind industry, there have been problems for offshore wind in recent years.
Ørsted, which develops a number of projects near the island, reduced around 800 jobs in a mass layoff last February as part of the efforts to support financial losses, especially from the challenges related to the US offshore wind portfolio . GE Vernova, the building contractor who built the Vineyard Wind 1 project, announced plans last September to Cut up to 900 jobs according to turbine leaves, Weinbergwind 1 Project and the Dogger Bank a project in the United Kingdom.
It is uncertain whether other companies that have offshore wind projects also have or plan to shorten employees like Vineyard Offshore. Several companies have offshore wind lease areas in a cluster south of Martha's vineyard, which collectively have hundreds of thousands of square miles, but have recently made no public statements about personnel issues.
“We do not comment on personnel matters,” said Meaghan Wims, a spokesman for Ørsted.
Ørsted, the Danish company for multinational companies, has several projects south of Martha's Vineyard, including Sunrise wind And Revolution wind Under construction off the Aquinnah coast. Last year Completed construction of South Fork WindAn offshore wind farm, which is located about 20 miles southwest of Martha's Vineyard and delivers around 130 megawatts of electricity – corresponds to around 70,000 houses – to Long Island, NY, 35 miles away.
While it is uncertain whether jobs will be reduced in the giant energy company this year, Ørsted has financial difficulties. The company announced at the beginning of this month to reduce its program for 2030 investments by 25 percent and to re -evaluate its “capital allocation” and to concentrate on current projects instead of starting new initiatives.
Representatives of Ocean Winds, which belong to SouthCoast Wind, and BP, to which Beacon wind belongs, did not respond to a request for comments.
South coast wind Make the approval of the federal government In December, but not started with the construction. Beacon Wind has not completed his approval process.
Updated with information from the Nantucket Select Board.