Tag: Wind Farm
147-turbine offshore wind project suffers another setback
PROVIDENCE – A significant Massachusetts offshore energy project faces additional headwinds following a decision Thursday by a Rhode Island state agency to not issue...
Things are getting murky with SouthCoast Wind’s application. Here’s what new...
The state’s coastal regulator is backing one allegation from a staff engineer over the status of an application for an offshore wind development while...
SouthCoast Wind CEO: Offshore project not ‘economically and financially viable’
PROVIDENCE – The CEO of SouthCoast Wind Energy LLC was grilled for more than two hours on Monday and repeatedly asked why the company...
BroadbandBI officially launches on Block Island
PROVIDENCE – State and congressional leaders on Monday celebrated the official launch of BroadbandBl, Rhode Island’s first 100% publicly owned, taxpayer-financed broadband network that...
N.B. protest pauses work on Vineyard Wind project
NEW BEDFORD – Work on a highly touted wind farm project off the Massachusetts coast was shut down because of a protest over diversity...
Orsted to buy out wind farm seabed rights from Eversource Energy
PROVIDENCE – Orsted A/S, one of the world’s largest developers of offshore wind energy, announced Thursday that it had agreed to buy the interests...
Eversource to sell all interests in offshore wind joint venture
PROVIDENCE – New England’s leading developer of offshore wind is selling off its interests in the joint venture that is building massive power generation...
CRMC approves Revolution Wind project
PROVIDENCE – A massive new offshore wind generation project, to be sited near Block Island, was given the green light Tuesday night by the...
Regulators approve $60M power line upgrades for Revolution Wind farm
State energy regulators swiftly gave their stamp of approval to a nearly $60 million worth of upgrades to Rhode Island power lines.
The Rhode Island...
While delays have hampered offshore wind, land-based turbines loom large in...
(Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series on the challenges and opportunities of solar- and wind-farm development in Rhode Island and...
