Vineyard Wind selects Marmon Utility to supply cable for its offshore wind farm in Connecticut

Vineyard Wind LLC has selected Marmon Utility, a Marmon/Berkshire Hathaway company headquartered in Seymour, to supply Kerite cables for the planned Park City Wind offshore wind farm project.

Marmon Utility will invest up to US$4 million to hire personnel and make equipment upgrades in their Kerite power cable facility that will allow the company to manufacture specific offshore inter-array cables needed for the Park City Wind project. In turn, Vineyard Wind is committed to selecting Kerite cable brand as its preferred cable supplier for at least 50% of the project, which will make Kerite the first American Tier 1 Supplier in offshore wind. 

Vineyard Wind submitted its Park City Wind proposal on September 30th, 2019 to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) in response to their 2019 solicitation for offshore wind facilities.

The Park City Wind proposal includes options to develop an up to 1,200 MW project, which will generate enough electricity to power 600,000 Connecticut homes. The initial generating capacity proposed for the project is 408 MW.