... that you could post that and accuse anyone else of "rants" or "nitpicking". 
It wasn't just the headline that was deceptive. "America’s first offshore wind farm just helped to shut down a small diesel-fired electric power plant " and "Block Island connection is an example of how renewables are helping to displace fossil fuels on the power grid" are also untrue. Why not just say "America's first commercial offshore wind power is now online!" and then highlight the details and talk about other efforts underway that should dwarf this example? That would be every bit as much of a "positive story" and would have the added benefit of actually being true.
Simple disproof:
Connect island to grid but not wind farm - same results for the diesel plant. Wind farm existence irrelevant.
Don't connect island to grid - diesel plant must remain. Wind farm existence (or connection to the island) irrelevant.
Therefore - Connection to grid (as with pretty much every other example of connecting people to the grid) is 100% of the reason why diesel can be retired. Wind farm had nothing to do with it (except for the geographic proximity).
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