Cianbro scores $100M Mass. wind contract
Cianbro Corp. has been awarded a contract to design and build an electrical service platform for the $2.6 billion Cape Wind offshore wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts. The total value of the platform and substructure will exceed $100 million, the Pittsfield-based company said Monday.
Bloomberg reported Siemens AG, Europe’s largest engineering company, was awarded the contract to supply 130 3.6-megawatt turbines to the Cape Wind project that’s now seeking financing to become the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States. Financial details of the Siemens agreement weren’t disclosed.
The electric service platform, which will be built at Cianbro’s modular manufacturing facility in Brewer, is like an offshore substation that will collect the power generated by individual wind turbines and send it ashore. Peter Vigue, Cianbro’s chairman and CEO, told the Bangor Daily News the company has been working with Siemens on the development of the offshore substation for the past year. Vigue wasn’t able to peg the exact number of jobs that would be tied to the Cape Wind contract.
He said the Cape Wind contract adds “credibility” to the Maine Aqua Ventus offshore project, a floating-platform offshore wind project pursued by a consortium including Cianbro, the University of Maine and Emera. That project is one of six applicants competing for one of three $46.6 million grants the U.S. Department of Energy will be awarding in 2014 to fund the development of offshore wind technology.
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