656 results found for 'Block Island'

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  • Scottish Port Secures EUR 29 Million Investment for Floating Wind Upgrade

    5 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Floating Wind, Foundations, Ports & Logistics, Supply Chain

    Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) will invest GBP 24.26 million (around EUR 28.81 million) in an upgrade at Kishorn Port that will enable the manufacture of floating wind foundations at the Scottish port. “With the quarry on site, Kishorn Port is ideally suited to concrete manufacturing of floating offshore wind sub-structures, with local content, laydown, marshalling, […]

  • UK Port Set for Expansion with New Deep-Water Terminal

    28 July 2025
    Ports & Logistics

    The Port of Great Yarmouth in the UK is set to undergo a major expansion, with plans announced to develop a new deep-water terminal at the port. The port operator is moving forward with plans to develop the southern terminal of its outer harbour in response to growing demand from developers and construction contractors involved […]

  • HydePoint, Subsea7 and EnBW Launch Offshore Hydrogen-Wind Study in Dutch North Sea

    11 September 2025
    Green Hydrogen, Power-to-X, R&D, Technology

    HydePoint, Subsea7, and EnBW have launched a joint initiative to investigate the potential integration of offshore hydrogen production systems with offshore wind infrastructure in the Dutch North Sea. “This collaboration brings together complementary expertise to tackle one of the key challenges in offshore hydrogen production — driving down the levelized cost of hydrogen. By working […]

  • Poland’s First O&M Base for Offshore Wind Opened

    21 May 2025
    Operations & Maintenance

    Baltic Power, a joint venture between Orlen and Northland Power, has launched Poland’s first operations and maintenance (O&M) base dedicated to offshore wind projects. The facility will support the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind farm for its entire lifecycle of approximately 30 years. Construction of the Łeba base began in January 2024 and was completed […]

  • BREAKING: Trump Administration Stops Construction on 80-Pct-Complete Offshore Wind Farm

    23 August 2025
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Only days after Ørsted reported in its half-year results that Revolution Wind was at 80 per cent of completion, the US Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued a stop-work order halting all offshore construction activities on the 704 MW project that is scheduled to start feeding electricity into Connecticut […]

  • RWE Unleashes Autonomous, Heavy Payload Drones at German Offshore Wind Farms

    15 October 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    RWE said on 15 October it had completed more than 80 successful cargo drone flights to offshore wind turbines in Germany, marking what it described as a milestone for the offshore wind industry. The company said the tests demonstrated the technical feasibility of using drones to deliver tools and spare parts directly to wind turbines […]

  • New York State Stops Offshore Wind Transmission Development Until ‘Federal Conditions Allow’

    22 July 2025
    Authorities, Grid Connection, Planning & Permitting

    The New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) has decided to “strategically terminate” the Public Policy Transmission Need (PPTN) process for offshore wind transmission infrastructure. The PSC says this is due to the federal government halting new offshore wind permitting, and that cancelling the process ensures New York State ratepayers are protected by avoiding premature […]

  • First Building Blocks Set for World’s First Artificial Island in Belgian North Sea (Video)

    30 April 2025
    Energy Islands, Grid Connection, Infrastructure, Offshore Platforms

    Construction has begun on the Princess Elisabeth Island, the world’s first energy island, in the Belgian North Sea, with the first two of 23 caissons already submerged at their final location. The work is being carried out on behalf of grid operator Elia Transmission Belgium by TM Edison, a joint venture between DEME and Jan De […]

  • EPA Withdraws Permit for Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Project

    17 March 2025
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reviewing the air quality permit for the Atlantic Shores offshore wind project, following a remand from the federal Environmental Appeals Board regarding the EPA’s initial permit decision. The permit, which was granted to the developer in September 2024, was appealed to the board by Save Long Beach Island […]

  • Block Island Switches to Offshore Wind Power

    2 May 2017
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Block Island is no longer powered by diesel generators after the Block Island Power Company transferred the Island’s electrical system to Deepwater Wind’s 30MW Block Island Wind Farm, the first offshore wind farm in US waters.

  • National Grid Kicks Off Onshore Works on Block Island

    19 February 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    National Grid has started installing the cofferdams for the subsea cables which will connect the Block Island Wind Farm, the first offshore wind farm in US waters, developed by Deepwater Wind, with Block Island. The next step involves a process called horizontal directional drilling (HDD), which creates a boring through which a conduit, and ultimately the submarine cables, […]

  • Windfarm Update: Block Island

    8 December 2014

    On 5 September developer Deepwater Wind announced that it received final federal approval for the construction of their 30MW Block Island Wind Farm, to belocated around 3 miles off the coast of Block Island. The company is now awaiting approval from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management for its application […]

  • Block Island Mainland Link to Make Landfall Within Days

    17 June 2016
    Environment, Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The 20-mile submarine cable which will connect US mainland to Block Island and export the electricity generated by the 30MW Block Island offshore wind wind farm, is expected to make landfall at Crescent Beach, Block Island, in the next week or so, depending on the weather. The cable laying barge Big Max started laying the 34.5kV […]

  • Master Point Rope Access Solutions Bags Block Island OWF Contract

    26 May 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Master Point Rope Access Solutions will be the first rope access service provider for Block Island Wind Farm, the first offshore wind farm in the United States, according to the company’s social media pages.

  • U.S. Army Corps Extends Comment Period on Deepwater Wind’s Offshore Project

    15 November 2012
    Authorities

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has extended the public comment period until Dec. 31, 2012 for those who want to submit comments on the Deepwater Wind proposal to construct five wind turbine generators and do other work off the southeast coast of Block Island, Rhode Island. The original 45-day comment period was scheduled to […]

  • Planning for no Cable, Just in Case (USA)

    28 December 2010

    Echoing a recent exchange at the Island Energy Plan Committee, the Electric Utility Task Group discussed options for reducing island electricity costs should a cable from the Deepwater Wind Block Island project fall through. Task group Chair Barbara MacMullan said that she didn’t think the town should limit itself to a stand-alone cable only. She […]

  • Block Island Project to Make R.I. Epicenter of New U.S. Offshore Wind Industry

    12 April 2013

    Rhode Island is on its way to become the epicenter of the new U.S. offshore wind industry, Jeffrey Grybowski, chief executive officer of Deepwater Wind, has written in an Op-Ed in the Providence Journal. The company, which is developing an offshore wind project off Block Island, hopes to obtain all of the required state and […]

  • USA: 53 Pct Block Island Residents Pro Offshore Wind Farm

    11 January 2013
    R&D

    The Block Island Residents Association (BIRA) sent the results of a poll regarding the Block Island Wind Farm to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which show that 53% of the interviewed people are in favour of the project and 38% are opposed to it, writes The Block Island Times. The results of the public […]

  • USA: CRMC Opens Public Comment Period for Block Island Wind Farm

    21 November 2012

    The Coastal Resources Management Council has opened a 60-day public comment period for the Deepwater Wind’s wind energy project offshore Block Island, writes the Block Island Times. The Block Island Wind Farm (BIWF) will consist of “five 6 MW wind turbine generators (WTGs), a submarine cable interconnecting the five WTGs, and a 34.5 kilovolt (kV) […]

  • USA: Deepwater to Add Fiber Optics to Submarine Power Cable

    26 June 2012
    Grid Connection

    Deepwater Wind has agreed to add fiber optic cables to their submarine power cable between Block Island and Narragansett, the Block Island Times writes. Providence based wind energy company is planning to install 5 turbines southeast of Block Island. The wind farm will generate over 100,000 megawatt hours annually, supplying the majority of Block Island’s […]

  • Big Max Starts Laying Block Island Subsea Export Cable

    16 May 2016
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The CLB Big Max has started laying the subsea cable which will export power generated by the first US offshore wind farm, the 30MW Block Island developed by Deepwater Wind, to Block Island. The Big Max started laying the eight-mile-long cable from Town Beach on Block Island to the wind farm last week, and the work will take about ten days. […]

  • Deepwater Wind Installs Buoy off Block Island (USA)

    5 April 2011

    With a demonstration wind farm proposed for three miles southeast of Block Island, island residents are curious about how a man-made turbine… By Dan West (block-island) [mappress] Source: block-island, April 05, 2011

  • Rough Seas Delay Block Island Subsea Cable Installation

    7 June 2016
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Adverse sea conditions have pushed back the installation of the 20-mile National Grid submarine cable from Narragansett, Rhode Island, to Block Island by one week. The cable laying barge Big Max was initially scheduled to install the cable last week, however, rough sea conditions postponed the works and the vessel is expected to start working off […]

  • Endiprev Sends Team USA to Block Island

    10 June 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Endiprev has returned to the Block Island offshore wind farm off Rhode Island with 100% American workforce to perform a maintenance campaign. Last week, the Endiprev USA team started working on the 30 MW Block Island, the first and currently only wind farm in US territorial waters. The project scope is to perform a mechanical […]

  • BOEM Authorizes Transmission Link for Block Island Wind Farm

    18 November 2014
    Authorities, Grid Connection

    U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Acting Director Walter Cruickshank today announced that BOEM has offered a right-of-way (ROW) grant to Deepwater Wind Block Island Transmission System, LLC (Deepwater Wind) for the Block Island Transmission System (BITS). “This is a major milestone for offshore renewable energy in […]

  • Deepwater Wind Extends Team for Block Island Wind Farm Project (USA)

    23 September 2011

      Deepwater Wind announced that it has named Robert Billington as Construction Project Director for the Block Island Wind Farm project, and named Bryan Wilson as Manager of the project. Billington, a civil engineer, has more than three decades of experience in the oil and gas industries in the United States, Asia, Africa and the […]