Is there a spill containment or cleanup/recovery plan?
The Project is designed to minimize the threat of oil spills to offshore and coastal areas. The offshore electrical substation platform would receive power from six 34.5-kilovolt collection grid solid dielectric cables that would enter via enclosed conduits on the side of the platform foundation. The cables, which contain no fluids, would connect to a main transformer that would use sulfur hexafluoride gas for transformer cooling, an inert, stable, colorless, odorless, nontoxic, and nonflammable gas. The Applicants selected this option instead of a conventional transformer with cooling oil to eliminate the risk of an oil spill from the transformer. A small emergency diesel generator and fuel tank with spill containment would be installed on the offshore electrical substation platform. In the event of electric power loss from shore, this diesel generator would provide power for aviation and navigation warning lights along with wind turbine startup. The 4,500-gallon diesel fuel tank woul
