South Korean industrial firm LS Cable & System has started construction of an offshore wind cable factory in Virginia amid President Donald Trump’s hostilie actions against the nascent US sector.
Its subsidiary LS Greenlink aims to complete its manufacturing and port facility in Chesapeake, Virginia by the first quarter of 2028.
The facility includes a 70,000m2 manufacturing plant and a 200-metre vertical continuous vulcanisation tower to manufacture high-voltage direct-current submarine cables.
Gisu Kim, regional president of North America at LS Cable & System, said: “This project not only strengthens our global production capabilities but also contributes directly to local economic growth and the advancement of the region’s energy infrastructure.”
LS Greenlink aims to complete the initial phase – which will require more than $680 million of investment – by the third quarter of 2027, ahead of full operations starting by the first quarter of 2028.
The company plans to build further phases to expand its production capacity “in response to evolving global infrastructure requirements”.
The facility is facilitated by tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act – which included incentives for domestic production of US wind and solar components – according to Virginia senator Tim Kaine.
Meanwhile, US Representative Bobby Scott described the facility as “an important piece of the domestic offshore wind supply chain”.
LS Greenlink has started construction on the factory despite analysts seeing very little US offshore wind capacity coming online in the next four years because of President Trump’s “hostile” moves against the sector.
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