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INDUSTRY HEADWINDS: Guests tour one of the turbines of America’s first offshore wind farm, off the coast of Block Island, during a wind power conference in 2022. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO/DAVID GOLDMAN

Big dreams for offshore wind now more distant than ever

Editorial and Op-Ed 09/12/2025

In 2007, then-Gov. Donald L. Carcieri touted a state-commissioned study that suggested wind power could generate a whopping 75% of Rhode Island’s electricity needs,...

As U.S. East Coast ramps up offshore wind power projects, much...

Economic Activity 09/11/2023

POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. (AP) – As the U.S. races to build offshore wind power projects, transforming coastlines from Maine to South Carolina, much...

Revolution Wind project gains federal approval

Economic Activity 08/22/2023

PROVIDENCE – The proposed Revolution Wind project has received a key environmental approval from the U.S. government, marking a significant step forward in the...

MASS. GOV. Maura Healy, on behalf of eight state energy chiefs, including Acting Commissioner State of R.I. Office of Energy Resources Chris Kearns, submitted a request on June 16 to the Department of Energy to form a Northeast States Collaborative on Interregional Transmission. / AP FILE PHOTO/JOHN ANTCZAK

R.I. joins regional energy transmission coalition effort

Energy 06/19/2023

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island has joined the rest of the New England states, plus New York and New Jersey, to get a head start...

New Bedford once lit the world with whale oil. Now it...

Government 05/25/2023

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) – New Bedford was once the city that lit the world, exporting vast quantities of whale oil for lamps in...

CAUTION SIGNAL: Fred Mattera, executive director of the Commercial Fisheries Center of Rhode Island, warns of the potential for loss of life and loss of vessels because the 1-mile-wide transit lanes allocated for traveling around wind turbines don’t provide enough room to safely maneuver vessels in high winds and storms when visibility is low. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

POWERING UP: Offshore wind sector gains momentum despite pandemic

Coronavirus 08/07/2020

Stark white walls, blank computer screens and empty desk chairs weren’t what the executives at Denmark-based wind-energy firm Orsted had in mind when they...

REALLY NOT NEEDED? The proposed natural gas-fired power plant in Burrillville was rejected over the summer by state regulators after the company proposing to build it, Invenergy, could not prove to the state Energy Facility Siting Board that it was needed. Now a study by the Rocky Mountain Institute questions whether nearly all plants across the nation such as this will be economically feasible at all within a decade and a half, thus supporting more investments in renewable energy. / COURTESY INVENERGY LLC

Should Rhode Island – or any state – be permitting new...

This Week's Poll 09/13/2019

A study released Sept. 9 said that by 2035 it will be more expensive to operate 90% of natural gas-fired power plants being considered...

TESTIMONY was filed to the Public Utilities Commission Friday supporting the power purchase agreement between National Grid Rhode Island and Orsted US Offshore Wind. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/ERIC THAYER

More testimony filed on proposed R.I. Revolution Wind power contract

Government 04/05/2019

PROVIDENCE – A series of pre-filed testimony on the power purchase agreement between National Grid Rhode Island and Orsted US Offshore Wind for the...

PBN on WJAR-TV, March 18, 2019

Government 03/18/2019

New players are disrupting a host of traditional services. While bad for some R.I. entrepreneurs, others cash in. Every week, PBN Editor Mark S. Murphy...