New York scurried this week to advance a new plan for offshore wind energy capacity after cancelling on April 19 about 4 GW of awards last year to developers of three projects when their turbine manufacturer, GE Vernova, said it would scale down the size of machines it could deliver.
The projects had specified use of giant 18-MW turbines that were to be built in an Albany, N.Y. area plant with $300 million in state funding, but GE Vernova revised them to 15.5-MW to 16.5-MW capacity, facing industry market challenges. The added redesign cost to include more generation units undermined project economics.