Abstract
This report supplements the Revolution Wind Farm Construction and Operations Plan.
Revolution Wind, LLC (Revolution Wind), a 50/50 joint venture between Orsted North America Inc. (Orsted NA) and Eversource Investment LLC (Eversource), proposes to construct and operate the Revolution Wind Farm Project (hereinafter referred to as the Project). The wind farm portion of the Project will be located in federal waters on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the designated Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Renewable Energy Lease Area OCS-A 0486 (Lease Area). The Lease Area is approximately 20 statute miles (mi) (17.4 nautical miles [nm], 30 kilometers [km]) south of the coast of Rhode Island (Figure 1.1-1). The Project consists of the Revolution Wind Farm (RWF), located within the Commercial Lease of Submerged Lands for Renewable Energy Development on the Outer Continental Shelf -A 0486 Lease Area (Lease Area) and the Revolution Wind Farm Export Cable (RWEC), traversing federal (RWEC-OCS) and Rhode Island state waters (RWEC-RI) to potential landfall options at Quonset Point in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
The Project will be comprised of both offshore and onshore components, which are described in detail in Section 3 of the Construction and Operations Plan (COP). This Technical Report focuses on evaluation of the Project’s offshore components, which include the following:
• up to 100 Wind Turbine Generators (WTGs) connected by a network of Inter-Array Cables (IAC);
• up to two Offshore Substations (OSSs) connected by an OSS-Link Cable; and
• up to two submarine export cables (referred to as the RWEC), generally co-located within a single corridor.
This Technical Report provides a detailed assessment of benthic resources that may be affected with implementation of the Project. The analyses presented in this Technical Report are summarized in Section 4.3.2 of the Project’s COP.