"The Vineyard Wind project, off the coast of Massachusetts, is slated to generate enough electricity to power 400,000 homes."
"The Biden administration on Tuesday will announce its final approval of the nation’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, a major step toward President Biden’s goal of expanding renewable energy production across the United States, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The Vineyard Wind project calls for up to 84 turbines to be installed in the Atlantic Ocean about 12 nautical miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. Together, they could generate about 800 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 400,000 homes.
The $2.8 billion project is a joint venture of the energy firms Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.
The idea of a wind farm off the Massachusetts coast was conceived two decades ago but ran into repeated setbacks, delays and well-funded opposition from waterfront property owners before the Trump administration moved to cancel the project’s permitting process."
Lisa Friedman and Coral Davenport report for the New York Times May 11, 2021.
SEE ALSO:
"Biden Wants To Move Energy Offshore, But Choppy Seas Are Ahead" (Washington Post)
"Biden Set to Approve Offshore Wind Farm Near Martha’s Vineyard" (Bloomberg)
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