Northeast wind projects notch a win, despite industry struggles
The long slender blades, like the claws of a giant wolverine, are stacked in the port of New Bedford, ready to be barged out to sea and assembled onto turbines that believers say will help power America’s future.
At 11:52 p.m. on Jan. 2, the first of what will be 62 wind turbines in the Vineyard Wind project off Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, began sending electricity ashore. This and South Fork Wind, a smaller project off Long Island, New York, that cranked up its first turbines Dec. 6, are the first commercial-scale offshore wind power farms to begin operations in the waters of the United States.
“I felt a lot of weight come off my shoulders,” says Klaus Møeller, the CEO of Vineyard
