Deepwater Wind, the developer behind America’s first (and currently only) offshore wind farm, has announced plans for a 120 MW wind farm offshore of Maryland, just days before its Block Island project begins generating electricity.
The American Wind Energy Association’s Offshore WINDPOWER Conference & Exhibition was held in Rhode Island this week, anticipating the first generation of electricity from the country’s first ever offshore wind farm.
Announced on Tuesday, GE Energy Financial Services and Citi closed tax equity financing for Deepwater Wind’s Block Island Wind Farm being developed off the coast of Rhode Island, which will be the country’s first offshore wind farm. GE Energy Financial Services, a division of GE and a global energy investor, … [continued]
By Christian Roselund Last Thursday, workers using a boat-mounted crane secured the final 240-foot blade onto a massive wind turbine, anchored to the ocean floor beneath Long Island Sound. With this act the turbine, and four others like it, were completed off the coast of a small island in the … [continued]
The Long Island Power Authority is apparently set to approve a 90 MW offshore wind farm in New York Waters, according to recent reports. According to reports from Bloomberg news, the Long Island Power Authority is planning to approve a 90 MW offshore wind farm off the coast of New … [continued]
Offshore wind farms appear to be the driver behind Rhode Island’s newly revved-up 38.5 percent renewable energy goal for 2035.
The US currently has no offshore wind capacity, but a new report has suggested that that could grow to 3.3 GW by the end of this decade. A new report from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) posits that the US could have 3.3 GW of … [continued]
Originally published on EIA. In July, American offshore wind developer, Deepwater Wind, installed the first foundation for what is expected to be the first offshore wind farm in the United States. The project will be located three miles southeast of Block Island, Rhode Island. With five turbines totaling 30 megawatts … [continued]
“Accelerating the penetration of renewable energy into the national and global energy portfolio is among the most important technical and social challenges of our time.” So says Andrew Myers, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, who also studies offshore wind structures and runs Northeastern’s Sustainable Structures … [continued]
Tiny Rhode Island has been leaping wind energy obstacles right and left, and is on its way to getting the nation’s first offshore wind farm off the ground.
