. The subcommittee comprises more than 300 members from various offshore wind industry sectors.”
“These recommended practices cover a broader scope than anything previously available to the offshore wind energy industry,” Musial said. “Although OCRP-1-2022 leans heavily on the International Electrotechnical Commission’s standards, it covers the entire life cycle of the project, from design of the turbine and substructure to end-of-life decommissioning.
OCRP-1-2022 is the first of five documents to be published. It was written by a consensus-based group of more than 100 offshore wind energy industry members. Rain Byars, the technical and delivery director for Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind , co-chaired with Graham Cranston, a DNV project manager and principal structural engineer.
The new guidance respects and maintains the pre-established ANSI/ACP consensus standards development process. “OCRP-1-2022 is an essential component to meeting the goal, providing common guidance, removing guesswork, and enabling required federal permitting design documents to be more quickly developed.
Four additional guidance documents will address specific topics, representing the rest of a comprehensive set of consensus-based guidelines under ANSI/ACP rules, including:Geotechnical and geophysical requirements for offshore wind energy technologiescontinues, “The combined, the five guidance documents will facilitate safe designs and the orderly deployment of U.S. offshore wind energy by accounting for unique U.S. geophysical, administrative, and environmental constraints, providing the U.S.
ProfStrachan , please proofread this article: it’s got redundant paragraphs in it. Also, it could use a little perspective: what’s next? What does the timeline for deployment look like? — especially in California, which is shockingly last deploying offshore wind. GavinNewsom