Heavy seas engulf the Block Island Wind Farm — the first US offshore wind farm. The five Halide 6MW turbines were installed by Deepwater Wind and began producing power in 2016. (Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL)
Boston — Today, a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled in favor of renewable energy developers, temporarily blocking a number of the Trump administration’s relentless and aggressive attacks on the industry. Since taking office, Donald Trump and his administration have thrown up numerous roadblocks to clean energy … [continued]
Vineyard Wind Reaches Completion & Revolution Wind Delivers Power to Over 350,000 Homes This weekend marked a milestone for New England: Vineyard Wind offshore wind farm has completed construction and Revolution Wind offshore wind farm is sending power to the electric grid. In Connecticut and Rhode Island, Revolution Wind will … [continued]
The US offshore wind industry is still alive and kicking with multiple gigawatts’ worth of clean electricity heading for the nation’s grid.
Court Allows Vineyard Wind Project to Continue Construction BOSTON — A judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts has granted a preliminary injunction for yet another one of Donald Trump’s freezes on offshore wind. Judge Brian Murphy ruled Wednesday that Vineyard Wind, a 13 megawatt wind project off the … [continued]
National security emergency or not, the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project will keep pumping out the clean kilowatts, at least for the time being (courtesy of Vineyard Wind).
Oh Lordy, where to begin? On December 22, the Trump administration urgently dropped a stop-work order on not one but five offshore wind farms spanning five different states on the Atlantic Coast, citing an extremely dire national security emergency. Oh, really? How dire? Clear and present danger dire? Not that … [continued]
Work on the new Connecticut-Rhode Island Revolution Wind offshore wind project has been stopped by order of the Interior Department (courtesy of Orsted).
Offshore wind workers are caught in the middle of a political whirlwind. President Donald J. Trump’s pummeling on the offshore wind industry could undermine millions of dollars that have been invested to construct docks, terminals, and training programs. The uncertain status of the industry has offshore wind workers quite concerned. What … [continued]
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Nantucket officials are not happy with Vineyard Wind. Feeling vulnerable after last summer’s turbine blade detachment, they’ve delivered 15 demands to the developer. The complaints include dissatisfaction with turbines’ lights and not including Nantucket in its emergency plans. What we have here is a failure to communicate. Last summer seemed … [continued]
Two recent accidents in the energy sector — an oil spill in Louisiana and a wind turbine failure in New England — have generated starkly different responses from the impacted communities and government agencies that regulate the industries. The distinctions, so far, are separated by geography, culture and wealth, among … [continued]
The first of 62 turbines in the Vineyard Wind offshore project began producing electricity at midnight on January 2, 2024.
The project will generate clean, renewable, affordable energy for over 400,000 homes and businesses across Massachusetts while reducing carbon emissions by over 1.6 million tons per year.
