据海上工程师网2021年11月19日报道，西班牙可再生能源巨头伊贝德拉电力公司（Iberdrola）宣布，该公司日前已经开始建设美国国内首个大型海上风力发电场——葡萄园风电1号。  

这个大型海上风力发电场将位于马萨诸塞州海岸附近。它比罗德岛现有的海上风电场大25倍，后者具有30兆瓦的发电能力，为17000户家庭供电。

据伊贝德拉电力公司称，拥有800兆瓦发电能力的葡萄园风电1号将满足40多万家庭的电力需求，并将创造3600个就业岗位。

葡萄园风电1号将由葡萄园风电公司运营，葡萄园风电公司由伊贝德拉电力公司通过AVANGRID子公司AVANGRID可再生能源公司和丹麦哥本哈根基础设施合作伙伴公司(CIP)组成，两家公司各拥有50%的股份。

据悉，这个大型海上风力发电场项目距离美国旅游胜地马撒葡萄园岛海岸24公里。  

李峻 编译自 海上工程师网

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Construction of U.S. First Large-scale Offshore Wind Farm Starts

Spanish renewables giant Iberdrola has informed that it has started construction work for the Vineyard Wind 1, the United States' first large-scale offshore wind farm.

The offshore wind farm will be located off the coast of Massachusetts. It is 25 times larger than an existing offshore wind farm in Rhode Island, which has 30 MW installed capacity and supplies electricity to 17,000 homes.

With 800 MW capacity, Vineyard Wind 1 will meet the electricity needs of more than 400,000 households and, according to Iberdrola will create 3,600 jobs.

Vineyard Wind 1 will be operated by Vineyard Wind, a company 50 % owned by the Iberdrola group -through AVANGRID subsidiary Avangrid Renewables- and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). The project is located 24 km from the coast of Martha's Vineyard.