NJ Offshore Wind Park Marine Activities Overview

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NJ Offshore Wind ParkMarine Activities Overview

• Presented to
• Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Offshore
  Wind Energy Meeting
• Institute of Marine Coastal Sciences at Rutgers
  New Brunswick, NJ
• 2 February 2009

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Example Offshore Wind Park Layout
Intra-array submarine cables
Offshore transformer platform
Wind turbine array
Submarine cable to shore
OFFSHORE
Connection to existing grid at substation
ONSHORE
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Project Description

• Project Size 348 MW (116 turbines)
• Closest turbine about 15.6 highway miles
  southeast of Atlantic City
• Offshore Construction Start Date
• Meteorological tower 2009
• Wind park 2012

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Location of New Jersey Project
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Marine Activities Overview

• Pre-Construction
• Avian Studies
• Geophysical Investigations
• Geotechnical Investigations
• Met Tower Installation
• Wave Sensor Deployment
• Staging Port Development

• Construction
• Foundation Installation
• Sub-sea Electrical Cable Installation
• Offshore Substation Installation
• Turbine Installation
• Post-Construction
• OM Activities
• Decommissioning

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Avian StudiesOverview of Studies

• Visual Transects
• Requires moving vessel
• Conducted in all seasons
• Radar
• Requires stationary
• platform
• Conducted during
• spring and fall migration
• periods

Source www.detect-inc.com
Source www.capecodtoday.com
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Geophysical InvestigationsBathymetry, Side Scan
Imagery, and Sub-Bottom Profiles

• Met tower
• Turbine field
• Export cable route

Source www.alpineocean.com
Source http//oceanexplorer.noaa.gov
Source www.alpineocean.com
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Geotechnical InvestigationsIdentify Sea-bed Soil
Conditions

• Drilled boreholes
• Cone Penetrometer Test (CPT)
• Vibracoring

Source RAVE Brochure
Source www.fugro.com
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• Met Tower Installation
• Met Tower Designs

Cape Wind
Horns Rev
W.E.S.T.
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• Met Tower Installation
• Construction

Source www.mammoetvanoord.com
Source www.mammoetvanoord.com
Source www.mammoetvanoord.com
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Wave Sensor DeploymentRecord Current and Wave
Data

• Deployed in trawl-resistant bottom mount (TRBM)
• Serviced approximately every 90 days

Source RERL U-Mass
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Staging Port DevelopmentReceive and Pre-Assemble
Components
Scroby Sands, Source www.2004ewec.info
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Foundation InstallationHandling a Monopile
Source RPS Energy Presentation
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Foundation Installation Handling a Transition
Piece
Source www.Q7wind.nl
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Sub-sea Electrical Cable InstallationCable
Laying Vessel at Work
Source www.hornsrev.dk
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Offshore Substation InstallationLifting a
Transformer Platform
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Turbine InstallationAssembling a Tower and
Lifting a Bunny Ear
Source www.mammoetvanoord.com
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OM ActivitiesAccessing a Wind Turbine
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DecommissioningEnd of Project Life

• At the end of project life turbines will be
  removed.
• The removal sequence is roughly the reverse of
  the construction sequence.

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Contact Information

• Kevin Pearce, Bluewater Wind
• kevin_at_bluewaterwind.com
• 201.850.3691
• Doug Pfeister, Bluewater Wind
• doug_at_bluewaterwind.com
• 646.431.8810

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Thank You