After more than a decade of work, Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project began generating electricity 27 miles from Virginia Beach on March 23.

The first — and for now only —turbine to produce power is generating enough energy for about 3,675 homes.

There’s much more to come. The $11.5 billion project will be the largest wind installation in the United States. Overall, it will have 176 turbines, which are expected to bring 2.6 gigawatts of energy to the grid, or enough to power to 660,000 homes.

The project is in response to Virginia’s Clean Energy Act. The 2020 law demands that Dominion Energy deliver 100% of its electricity from carbon-free sources by 2045.

“This marks another major milestone for the project, adding much-needed electricity to help serve the fastest- growing power demand in the country,” Dominion Energy spokesperson Jeremy Slayton said in an email.

The project is on schedule to be completed by 2027 despite recent challenges. Steel tariffs have added costs, and the Trump administration issued a stop work order for the project, which a Norfolk judge reversed in January.