PORTSMOUTH, VA — Skanska announces that it has completed the redevelopment project for the Virginia Port Authority, upgrading 72 acres of Portsmouth Marine Terminal and 1,500 feet of wharf that now serves as an offshore wind staging port.
Dominion Energy uses the Portsmouth Marine Terminal staging port for its Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, one of the largest offshore wind installations in the United States. The terminal serves as a collection and storage site for wind turbine components, which are then transferred to installation vessels.
“We are proud to support the vital role of the Virginia Port Authority and Dominion’s work to build clean energy infrastructure, in this case enough wind energy to power 660,000 homes a year,” said Brook Brookshire, Senior Vice President of Operations, Skanska USA Civil. “This project strengthens vital port infrastructure while advancing sustainable energy production and benefiting local communities through job creation.”
Skanska’s work, which began in 2022 and was recently substantially completed, included:
- Constructing three heavy lift berths: the wind turbine generator delivery berth, the wind turbine generator load-out berth, and the berth for the steel tube monopiles
- Strengthening the soils and surface in the upland areas to accommodate heavy surface loadings from cranes, self-propelled modular transporters, wind turbine generators, and monopile and transition piece components
- Installing high mast lighting, stormwater collection systems, and other ancillary structures and systems
- Driving 1,335 150-foot-long piles (stretching 37 miles long if lined up end to end) and pouring 26,500 cubic yards of concrete
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“Skanska has been a good partner in the transformation of Portsmouth Marine Terminal into a logistics hub for the growing, regional offshore wind industry,” said Stephen A. Edwards, CEO and Executive Director of the Virginia Port Authority. “The project presented some challenges, but there was a lot of collaboration between the port and Skanska teams that yielded a project, an outcome, that was delivered on-time and on-budget.”
Components for 176 enormous turbines are passing through the Portsmouth Marine Terminal. Once Dominion Energy completes the CVOW project, which includes assembling and installing offshore turbines, they will generate 2.6 gigawatts of energy.
