First major offshore wind project in US advances

[DonViejo]

Federal officials have completed the environmental review of the Vineyard Wind.

By Joseph Guzman | March 9, 2021

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Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, has plans for a more than $2 billion, 800-megawatt wind farm 12 nautical miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.

The Department of the Interior on Monday said its Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) completed its final environmental impact review of the offshore wind project, a critical step before it makes a decision on whether it will approve or deny the request to construct the project.

It’s estimated the project will generate enough renewable electricity for more than 400,000 homes and businesses in Massachusetts and will eliminate 1.68 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year.

The nation’s first industrial-scale offshore wind farm aimed at delivering clean renewable energy to hundreds of thousands of Americans is inching closer to receiving federal approval.

Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, has plans for a more than $2 billion, 800-megawatt wind farm 12 nautical miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.

It’s estimated the project will generate enough renewable electricity for more than 400,000 homes and businesses in Massachusetts and will eliminate 1.68 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year.

Vineyard Wind is hoping to deliver energy to the state by 2023.

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[EarnestPutz]

1. About time this project got moving again. The snobs on Martha's Vinyard and Nantucket, as.....

....well as Hyannisport have fought it for years. Purely an "NIMBY" reaction to progress.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Can't wait until they put one up by Mar-a-Lago.

[a kennedy]

4. Now that would be great......

[lagomorph777]

5. Yeah, and no 12-mile buffer zone.

[a kennedy]

3. I think Ted Kennedy was AGAINST this when he was alive......

or am I wrong??

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. That's how I remember it. He didn't want to see windmills from his lawn, ...

... or from his sailboat.

They are ok in someone else's vista, I guess.

[CentralMass]

7. It is good to see this moving forward. The Koch's and other forces killed the

CapeWind project off the coast of Nantucket.