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Local port, offshore wind leaders holding industry to highest standard amid...

PROVIDENCE – Leaders of local ports and offshore wind are looking to hold themselves to the highest possible standard as political uncertainty over the...

Trump tasks congressman with writing executive order he could issue to...

President-elect Donald Trump tasked a New Jersey congressman and vocal critic of offshore wind with writing an executive order he could issue to halt wind energy...

Orsted Region Americas CEO stepping down

PROVIDENCE – David Hardy is stepping down as Orsted A/S Region Americas CEO, the Danish company announced Monday. Hardy, who has led the region for...

Vineyard Wind to remove already installed blades, strengthen others 

Vineyard Wind early Wednesday morning revealed that it has been given approval to resume installation of turbine blades after certain conditions are met, including...

SEC filing of the week: Equinor buys 10% stake in Orsted

PROVIDENCE – Equinor ASA has become the second-largest shareholder of Orsted A/S, the Danish company that is developing a pair of offshore wind farms...

SEC filing of the week: Avangrid shareholders approve $2.55B takeover bid

PROVIDENCE – A Connecticut-based energy company that owns a pair of offshore wind farms in New England has accepted a $2.55 billion takeover bid.  In...

URI receives $2.5M to study ‘ghost gear’ around offshore wind projects

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A team from the University of Rhode Island will monitor biodiversity and lost or abandoned fishing gear – dubbed ‘ghost gear’...
THE SUNRISE WIND project, which received final approval from the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Friday, is expected to power over 300,000 homes in New York when completed. / COURTESY ORSTED U.S. OFFSHORE WIND

Sunrise Wind project earns final approval from federal agency

PROVIDENCE – The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management gave its final approval Friday to the 924-megawatt Sunrise Wind project off the coast of...
Christopher Niezrecki

The good, the bad and the opportunity in offshore wind

America’s first large-scale offshore wind farms began sending power to the Northeast earlier this year, but a wave of wind farm project cancellations and...
KRISTIN URBACH has left the North Kingstown Chamber of Commerce as its executive director to lead the Connecticut Wind Collaborative. /PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Urbach departs N.K. Chamber to lead Connecticut Wind Collaborative

NORTH KINGSTOWN – After leading the local Chamber of Commerce for nearly a decade as its executive director and spearheading multiple workforce development initiatives...
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