Installation of First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Complete On August 18, 2016 it was released that construction on the Block Island Wind Farm is complete. The 30-megawatt project off the coast of Rhode Island will be commissioned by the end of the year. Wind Energy Development Offshore North Carolina U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally…
Research buoy collected a wealth of information, forming database to help improve the offshore wind industry. One of two research buoys commissioned by the Energy Department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has ended a 19-month deployment off Virginia Beach, Virginia. During this time, the heavily instrumented buoy collected a wealth of information, which forms the first…
Current administration’s Climate Action Plan, calls for major investments in offshore wind farm construction! The federal government on Friday unveiled its vision for wind farms off of nearly every U.S. coastline by 2050, in an effort to generate 86 gigawatts of electricity from offshore wind — enough zero-carbon power for more than 23 million homes. The…