Turbine foundations will be made at Brayton Point in Somerset if Bay State Wind receives a Massachusetts contract for offshore wind, a company spokeswoman said Thursday.

By Jennette Barnes The Standard-Times

NEW BEDFORD — Turbine foundations will be made at Brayton Point in Somerset if Bay State Wind receives a Massachusetts contract for offshore wind, a company spokeswoman said Thursday.

German steel maker EEW and Houston-based steel company Gulf Island Fabrication, which will provide foundations for the project, have selected the former Brayton Point power plant as their manufacturing location, according to Lauren Burm, a spokeswoman for Ørsted.

Bay State Wind is a joint venture between Danish energy company Ørsted and New England energy company Eversource.

The steel companies are negotiating to buy the large turbine building at Brayton Point, she said.

Bay State Wind is one of three projects competing in a state-supervised bidding process. Energy distribution companies must buy offshore wind power to comply with a 2016 state law.

The three competitors, including Deepwater Wind and Vineyard Wind, have made a series of commitments about job creation and training leading up to the May 23 date when one or more of the wind projects is expected to be chosen for a contract.

Bay State Wind has previously said the foundation factory would generate 500 construction jobs, including jobs for welders, blaster painters, steel fabricators and associated trades.

EEW will produce large steel pipes and the primary pieces of the foundations, while Gulf Island Fabrication will produce secondary materials and do the painting. EEW has supplied more than 650 monopile foundations to Ørsted’s offshore wind projects around the world.

Thomas Brostrøm, president of Ørsted North America, said the plant would be the first offshore wind manufacturing facility in the country and would generate economic growth throughout Southeastern Massachusetts.

“Making Brayton Point the site for EEW and Gulf Island Fabrication’s future manufacturing foundations for Bay State Wind’s offshore wind project would mark not only the transformation of that power plant from fossil fuel to renewable energy, but it would also mark the birth of a U.S. supply chain here in the commonwealth,” he said in a written statement.