Reposted from Earthward, https://fromknowledgetopower.com/offshore-wind/ 10 AUGUST 2023Thanks for reading Earthward! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This week, the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth, a nonpartisan think tank better known as MassINC, published a modest account of a boat ride in its journal, CommonWealth. Massachusetts state lawmakers, local officials from Martha's Vineyard, and others on board were touring the construction site for the nation's first commercial scale offshore wind farm, Vineyard Wind I, slated to begin operation next year. The farm is located south of Martha's Vineyard and will consist of 62 wind turbines, spaced a mile apart, providing enough electricity to power 400,000 homes. CommonWealth reports that the lawmakers gushed superlatives about the project, one regarding it as this generation's Hoover Dam. Success came after proponents overcame technical, regulatory and financial hurdles that had defeated an earlier project, Cape Wind, a 130 turbine undertaking that would have been placed in the middle of nearby Nantucket Sound. Vineyard Wind's triumph leads the way for a new US industry that should become a crucial energy pillar for the emerging green economy.
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Reposted from Earthward, https://fromknowledgetopower.com/offshore-wind/ 10 AUGUST 2023Thanks for reading Earthward! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This week, the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth, a nonpartisan think tank better known as MassINC, published a modest account of a boat ride in its journal, CommonWealth. Massachusetts state lawmakers, local officials from Martha's Vineyard, and others on board were touring the construction site for the nation's first commercial scale offshore wind farm, Vineyard Wind I, slated to begin operation next year. The farm is located south of Martha's Vineyard and will consist of 62 wind turbines, spaced a mile apart, providing enough electricity to power 400,000 homes. CommonWealth reports that the lawmakers gushed superlatives about the project, one regarding it as this generation's Hoover Dam. Success came after proponents overcame technical, regulatory and financial hurdles that had defeated an earlier project, Cape Wind, a 130 turbine undertaking that would have been placed in the middle of nearby Nantucket Sound. Vineyard Wind's triumph leads the way for a new US industry that should become a crucial energy pillar for the emerging green economy.