Icebreaker Wind
Located 13 km north of Cleveland, Ohio in Lake Erie. Freshwater, not tidal. Ohio Energy Gateway project.
Status
Cancelledlifecycle stage
Ownership
LELake Erie Energy Development Corporation — 100% ◇
Location
United StatesLake Erie
Technology
Capacity
20.7 MW ◇
Turbines
6 × 3.45 MW ◇
Model
Vestas V126 3-45 ◇
Foundation
Suction bucket ◇
Site & conditions
Site rights
Seabed rights held 2020-05 ◆
Distance from shore
13 km ◇
Wind speed
8.1 m/s @ 100 m ≈
Revenue & grid
Offtake
Other project cancelled ◇
Grid
—
Schedule
COD
—
Project timeline verified milestones only — each date carries its provenance mark
Dashed tick marks today (9 Sep 2026).
Installation how the build is going · from satellite counts and Hafrok’s registers
Installation not started
nothing to count yet: the satellite tracker begins when offshore construction does
Installation · on record
StageCancelled
Offshore constructionnot started
Expected start of operationnot stated
Sources & verification
1/14 fields verified · rests on 7 sources (3 primary) · ◆ 1 document held
◆Verified≈Modelled◇Sourced∴Inferred⌁Convention○Unverified∅No source·Derived
Numbers are stable citation ids — grouped by source class, so they are not consecutive.
Operator1
[7]
Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB)2026-03-19◆ Ohio Power Siting Board - Wind Case Stat…
“16-1871-EL-BGN NA Icebreaker 5/21/20 Cuyahoga (Lake Erie) 6 20.7”
supportsConsentSite rightsConsent granted
Trade press5
[2]
[3]
[4]
US DOE (Project Icebreaker EA-2045)2016
supportsTurbinesModelUnit capacityTotal capacityFoundation+2 more
[5]
4C Offshore2026-07-02
Press report — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
supportsCoordinates
[6]
Unverified import1
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