Photos: Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Program pilot project
Standing taller than the Washington Monument, two wind turbines currently sit towering over the Atlantic Ocean, 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach.
These turbines are part of the pilot project for Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Program, slated to be completed in 2026. The project will soon grow to include a total of 176 turbines, enough to power about 600,000 homes according to the company. In addition to the turbines there will be three offshore substations, miles of undersea cables and new onshore transmission infrastructure to distribute the energy.
As part of the new infrastructure, Dominion will build an electric transmission line that will carry the energy from where it arrives onshore at the State Military Reservation to their existing Fentress Substation located in Chesapeake. In addition to this transmission line, a 31,167-square-foot monitoring and coordination center will be built at Fairwinds Landing, formerly the Lambert’s Point Docks, on the Elizabeth River in Norfolk.
