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来源：MarineLink  2024-09-06 

翻译：国际海事信息网 檀智 张运鸿 

 

        美国政府官员周五宣布，马萨诸塞州和罗德岛州正推进三座总容量为 2.9 吉瓦（足以为约 160 万户家庭供电）的海上风电项目。

 

        这些项目是在 3 月份联合招标新英格兰海岸风电场后选定的，将使马萨诸塞州和罗德岛州更接近实现旨在应对气候变化影响的州级可再生能源目标。

 

        “我们正朝着能源独立、空气清洁和经济转型迈出重要一步，”马萨诸塞州州长莫拉·希利在一份声明中表示。

 

        在经历了灾难性的一年之后，美国海上风电业在 2024 年下半年趋于稳定。此前一年，开发商取消了多个项目合同，并对废弃项目进行了 91 亿美元的减记和减值。

 

        新英格兰新选定的海上风电项目包括 SouthCoast Wind、New England Wind 1 和 Vineyard Wind 2。New England Wind 1 由 Avangrid 支持，SouthCoast 由 EDP Energias de Portugal 与 Engie 的合资项目支持，而 Vineyard Wind 2 则由Vineyard Offshore （由Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners管理的基金持有）负责开发。

 

        这些项目预计将在大约十年后开始供电。

 

        联邦和各州的气候承诺主要集中于通过用可再生能源（如风能和太阳能）替代化石燃料发电来使电网“脱碳”。马萨诸塞州的目标是到 2030 年将其电力部门的碳排放量减少 50%，到 2050 年减少 100%。幅员较小的罗德岛州则设定了到 2033 年全部使用可再生能源的目标。

 

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Massachusetts and Rhode Island are moving ahead with three offshore wind projects totaling 2.9 gigawatts (GW), or enough electricity to power about 1.6 million homes, government officials announced on Friday.

 

The project selections, following a joint solicitation in March for wind farms to be built off of New England's shores, move Massachusetts and Rhode Island closer to state renewable energy goals aimed at combating the effects of climate change.

 

"We are taking an important step towards energy independence, cleaner air and transforming our economy," Governor Maura Healey said in a statement.

 

The U.S. offshore wind industry has stabilized in the second half of 2024, after a disastrous pervious year that saw developers cancel multiple project contracts and take $9.1 billion in write-offs and impairments on abandoned projects.

 

New England's newly selected offshore projects include SouthCoast Wind, New England Wind 1 and Vineyard Wind 2. Avangrid is behind New England Wind 1, Southcoast is backed by a joint venture between EDP Energias de Portugal and Engie and Vineyard Wind 2 is being developed by Vineyard Offshore, which is held by funds managed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.

 

The projects are expected to begin delivering power in around the end of the decade.

 

Federal and state climate pledges have largely centered around decarbonizing electrical grids by replacing fossil-fired power with renewable wind and solar. Massachusetts aims to slash its power sector's carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 and 100% by 2050. The much smaller Rhode Island has set a goal to use all renewables by 2033.

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