Vineyard Wind, developer of the US’ first commercial-scale project, the 800MW Vineyard Wind 1, is teaming up with a state university on a new multi-year study to monitor the marine ecosystem in the array’s lease area for signs of impact linked to the development off the coast of Massachusetts, including to the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.
Vineyard Wind 1, being built via a joint venture (JV) between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and Iberdrola subsidiary Avangrid, will partner with the University of New Hampshire (UNH) on a five-year programme to deploy passive acoustic monitoring devices to collect data from the site of the project, where construction is slated
