Abstract
This report supplements the Sunrise Wind Construction and Operations Plan.
Sunrise Wind LLC (Sunrise Wind), a 50/50 joint venture between Orsted North America Inc. (Orsted NA) and Eversource Investment LLC (Eversource), proposes to construct, own, and operate the Sunrise Wind Farm Project (the Project). 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 0487 (Lease Area)1 approximately 18.9 statute miles (mi) (16.4 nautical miles [nm], 30.4 kilometers [km]) south of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts (MA), approximately 30.5 mi (26.5 nm, 48.1 km) east of Montauk, New York (NY), and 16.7 mi (14.5 mi, 26.8 km) from Block Island, Rhode Island (RI) as measured from the closest Sunrise Wind Farm (SRWF) foundation to any given point of land. Components of the Project will be located in federal waters on the OCS, in state waters of New York, and onshore in Smith Point and the Town of Brookhaven, Long Island, NY. The Sunrise Wind Export Cable (SRWEC) will traverse both federal waters and state territorial waters of New York (SRWEC–OCS; SRWEC–New York State [NYS]), see Figure 1.1-1.
The onshore components of the Project will include an Onshore Converter Station (direct current [DC] electrical technology; OnCS–DC), Onshore Transmission Cable, Onshore Interconnection Cable, and Fiber Optic Cable, which will be located in the Town of Brookhaven, Long Island, NY. The proposed interconnection location is the Holbrook Substation, which is owned and operated by Long Island Power Authority (LIPA). The offshore components of the Project, including the wind turbine generators (WTGs), Offshore Converter Station (DC electrical technology; OCS–DC), and Inter-Array Cables (IACs), will be located in federal waters south of the coast of Rhode Island in the SRWF within the Lease Area.