Skipjack Wind Farm
Skipjack is a 120 MW capacity off shore wind farm, proposed by Ørsted US Offshore Wind to be built on the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore Delaware, approximately 16.9 nautical miles- from the coast opposite Fenwick Island. It is projected that the project, which will provide power to Maryland, will be commissioned in 2022. It is one of two offshore wind farm projects providing wind power to Maryland, the other being Marwind. WEA. The project will be built in BOEM-designated Wind Energy Area (WEA) OCS-A 0519, an area of approximately 16.9 nautical miles or off the  Delaware coast between Indian River Outlet opposite Fenwick Island, north of the Maryland WEA. Infrastructure. Skipjack will use 10 GE Wind Energy Haliade-X 12 MW turbines, feet tall with rotors long (with blades each long), made in Cherbourg, France. The nacelles are also produced in France. Ørsted U.S. Offshore Wind will partner with Tradepoint Atlantic, based in Port of Baltimore, to develop a logistics center to create a 50-acre staging center for on-land assembly, storage and loading out into deep waters. The Port of Paulsboro on the Delaware River in New Jersey could become the site for  the production the monopile foundations for turbines. Ørsted has proposed using 1.5 acres of land in Fenwick Island State Park in Delaware as a transmission point. ORECs. The Maryland Public Service Commission has authorized ORECs (offshore wind renewable energy certificates) for both Skipjack and Marwind. Visibility from shore. Residents and business, particularly in Ocean City, Maryland, have raised concerns about the potential of negative impact of building a wind farm offshore, thus creating a landscape that could affect tourism. The turbines have changed in size since the initial proposal by the predecessor of Orsted. They will be feet tall. Skipjack