South Brooklyn wind plant OK’d
Sunset Park to house massive offshore wind turbine assembly plant
BY ROSE ADAMS
The South Brooklyn Marine
Terminal in Sunset Park
will become an enormous new
wind turbine assembly plant
funded in part by New York
State, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced
on Jan. 13.
“This is our path forward
in stimulating the economy
post-pandemic, and leading
the way on protecting the environment,”
the governor said
during his annual State of the
State address.
The Sunset Park port, located
just west of Industry
City, will be used to assemble
wind turbines the height of
the Chrysler Building using
parts that are manufactured
upstate, according to the New
York State Energy Research
and Development Authority
(NYSERDA).
The turbines will be
shipped to three offshore wind
farms off the coast of Long Island,
where they will generate
a total of 3.3 gigawatts of
energy for the state — enough
to power more than 1.8 million
homes for a year.
The entire project will be
operated by Norwegian energy
company Equinor, in partnership
with British Petroleum.
Two of Equinor’s wind
farms were given the green
light on Jan. 13 by NYSERDA,
which awarded Equinor bids
as part of the state’s 2020 offshore
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wind procurement. In
its plans, Equinor named the
South Brooklyn Marine Terminal
as the wind turbine assembly
site for both of its proposed
wind farms.
A third Equinor wind farm
that the state approved in 2019
will also use the Sunset Park
site for its assembly operations.
As part of the winning bid,
the South Brooklyn Marine
Terminal is slated to receive
$200 million in infrastructure
upgrades from the state,
according to the solicitation.
The state’s funding will be
matched by $200 million in
private funds, totaling $400
million in renovations for the
dilapidated space, which has
sat empty for years.
At 73 acres, the assembly
plant will be one of the largest
in the country, Equinor said.
The port, which is slated to be
up and running by 2025, will
create 1,200 local manufacturing
jobs, according to Cuomo.
Those jobs will be a
life-saver for Sunset Park,
which has been hard-hit by
COVID-19, one local environmentalist
said.
‘This is good news part for
a community that has been
dealing with a loss of income,
that’s on the brink of despair,”
said Elizabeth Yeampierre,
the executive director of the
environmentalist group Uprose.
“It’s really good news
that there are going to be jobs.
These victories are very important.”
The new wind farms also
mark an important step in
reaching the state’s ambitious
goals set in the 2019 Climate
Leadership and Community
Protection Act, which
requires that 70 percent of the
state’s energy be renewable by
2030.
“Today’s announcement
will bring New York nearly
half-way to its nation-leading
target of 9,000 megawatts of
offshore wind generating capacity
by 2035, and will contribute
to President-elect
Biden’s goal of 100% carbonfree
emissions from the electricity
generating sector by
2050,” said the clean energy
coalition New York Offshore
Wind Alliance in a statement.
Equinor, whose wind farm off the coast of England is pictured here, will
transform the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal into a wind turbine assembly
plant. Jan Arne Wold / Woldcam
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