On Tuesday night at 11:54 p.m., the wind farm team of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and Avangrid passed a major test – generating 5 megawatts of electricity from one turbine and successfully transmitting the electrons via a transmission line into the regional power grid on Cape Cod.
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Vineyard Wind, a couple days after target date, delivers first power
The developers behind Vineyard Wind failed to follow through on their pledge to begin delivering electricity to the power grid in 2023.
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State agency prepares to buy Salem offshore wind port land
Crowley will receive $30 million for the sale, the same amount the company paid when it originally purchased the land, according to Tyson. Another $45 million in state funding will support capital development at the site.
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Mass. raises eyebrows with offshore wind security deposit stance
As Massachusetts gets ready to take bids for the state’s next offshore wind procurement, questions are arising over how to deal with developers who won earlier contracts and terminated them because of changed economic circumstances.
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State board approves Craigville Beach transmission line
As the number of transmission lines coming ashore in Barnstable has grown, so has anxiety among residents, who are worried about popular beaches being torn apart as well as potential safety and health issues.
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Somerset offshore wind plant clears major hurdle
A PROPOSED TRANSMISSION cable manufacturing plant in Somerset to serve the US offshore wind industry cleared a major hurdle on Thursday when the town’s Zoning Board of Appeals voted unanimously to revise one of the conditions that had become a sticking point with the company. The board in mid-September voted unanimously to require Prysmian to […]
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Avangrid says it terminated offshore wind contracts at “minimum cost”
THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE of Avangrid told financial analysts on Thursday that he was very pleased the company was able to terminate offshore wind power purchase agreements in Massachusetts and Connecticut “at minimum cost” but was noncommittal about whether the firm will be able to sign future deals at prices that will be acceptable to […]
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Tension boils over at Somerset zoning meeting
TENSION IS RISING in the South Coast community of Somerset as the town moves closer to a final decision on a zoning condition that could determine whether an Italian company opens an offshore wind factory at Brayton Point or not. At a Zoning Board of Appeals meeting Thursday night, that tension rose to the surface […]
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First Vineyard Wind turbine installed
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE ONE DOWN, 61 to go. The Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners joint venture announced Wednesday that the installation of the first of 62 turbine generators that will make up the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind project has been completed about 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard, but project officials also backed […]
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Somerset considering $20m tax break for Brayton Pt. plant
SOMERSET IS CONSIDERING giving a $20 million tax break to the Prysmian Group to help build a subsea transmission cable manufacturing facility at Brayton Point. Prysmian has already received a $25 million grant from the state for dredging and the construction of a pier. The proposed tax cut won approval from one Somerset town committee […]