South Fork Wind

South Fork Wind Farm is the United States' first utility-scale offshore wind farm. It is located on the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore Rhode Island and providing power to New York state.

The 132 MW, 12-turbine wind farm is located 16.6 nautical miles (30.7 km; 19.1 mi) southeast of Rhode Island's Block Island and 26 nautical miles (48 km; 30 mi) east of Montauk Point on the South Fork of New York's Long Island. The wind farm is expected to generate electricity equivalent to that consumed by 70,000 Long Island homes use in a year and offset 300,000 tons of carbon emissions each year. The turbines are Siemens Gamesa 11.0-200 DD machines, meaning each turbine will have a capacity of 11.0 MW and a diameter of 200 meters. The substation is the first of its kind built in the United States, by Kiewit Offshore Services, Ltd. The wind farm was built by Ørsted US Offshore Wind in conjunction with Eversource and approved by the Long Island Power Authority, a not-for-profit public utility company serving Long Island and Rockaway, Queens. The project is a 97,498 acres (39,456 ha) section of Wind Energy Area (WEA) OCS-A 0486 (North Lease). The wind farm connects to the power grid through an underwater export cable to East Hampton, New York.

Though the lease was approved by Long Island Power Authority in 2017, construction of South Fork Wind did not began until February 2022. Power from the first turbine began being delivered to the grid on December 6, 2023. New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced the completion of the project on March 14, 2024, at an event with international renewable energy leaders.