Tiny Rhode Island Thumbs Nose At Wind Power Nay-Sayers With New 38.5% Plan
Offshore wind farms appear to be the driver behind Rhode Island’s newly revved-up 38.5 percent renewable energy goal for 2035.
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 wind energy is heading for two major transformational milestones with the nation’s first offshore wind farm and major transmission line.
GE announced earlier this month that it has completed the installation of the offshore platforms for America’s first offshore wind farm. The road to offshore wind in the US has been long and bumpy, with very little to show for the efforts. The collapse of the Cape Wind project left … [continued]
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.
How does one break ground on an offshore wind energy project? Rhode Island figured it out, and the tiny state gets the first offshore wind farm n the US.
Following the disappointment that was (and is) the Cape Wind project off Cape Cod, many had doomed the American offshore wind industry to deep water, but Deepwater Wind has just announced that it has fully financed the Block Island Wind Farm, set to be developed in Rhode Island. The news … [continued]
Energy Secretary lays out doomsday scenario for fossil energy stakeholders in Houston while offshore wind energy industry celebrates in Atlantic City.