1022 results found for 'Massachusetts'

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  • USA: New Bedford Strongly Supports Offshore Wind Development

    14 November 2012
    Authorities

    At a meeting held on Tuesday in New Bedford, offshore wind development in Massachusetts Wind Energy Area was strongly supported by the attendees. The support is based on the fact that offshore wind projects will bring great economy boost and job creation, especially for the city’s young people. The focus of the meeting was federal […]

  • IPF Session to Launch Offshore Wind Research Framework in US

    26 July 2016
    Environment, R&D

    With Massachusetts close to passing an omnibus energy bill which supports development of at least 2,000MW of offshore wind capacity by 2027, multiple research institutions have embarked on developing a national framework for offshore wind energy research. The framework will be launched during a session at this year’s International Offshore Wind Partnering Forum (IPF), held from 2nd to 5th October in Newport, […]

  • RI Supreme Court Upholds Deepwater Wind’s Power Contract for Block Island Wind Farm

    4 July 2011
    Authorities, R&D, Wind Farm Update

      A Rhode Island Supreme Court paves the way for Deepwater Wind to advance the permitting and development of its planned Block Island Wind Farm, which remains on track to be the first offshore wind farm in the nation. The Supreme Court upheld Deepwater Wind’s power purchase agreement with National Grid for the renewable energy […]

  • Federal Permitting Process Starts for 2+ GW Offshore Wind Project in US

    29 June 2021
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced on 28 June that it would begin conducting an environmental review of a Construction and Operations Plan (COP) for the Vineyard Wind South wind project, which could add up to 2.3 GW of offshore wind capacity to the US. The project has been proposed to be […]

  • US Offshore Wind Developers Pick Fisheries Representative

    21 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection, Ports & Logistics

    The New Bedford Port Authority has reached an agreement with all offshore wind developers operating in the Massachusetts/Rhode Island market to serve as the designated Fisheries Representative of the commercial fishing industry to each of the development companies.

  • Offshore Wind Power USA 2012 Adds Two New Keynote Speakers

    17 January 2012

    Green Power Conferences’ 3rd annual Offshore Wind Power USA, the premier conference for professionals in the U.S. offshore wind industry, has announced that two additional keynote speakers have been added to the already comprehensive roster of experts at the conference to be held February 22-24 at the Haynes Convention Center in Boston. Deputy Secretary of […]

  • Avangrid Shareholders Approve Iberdrola’s Takeover

    27 September 2024
    Business & Finance, Industry, Outlook & Strategy

    Avangrid’s shareholders have approved Iberdrola’s acquisition of the remaining 18.4 per cent of Avangrid’s capital, through a merger operation. The acquisition was supported by approximately 99 per cent of the votes cast, compared to just 1 per cent of votes cast against. The percentage of support amongst the voting shareholders, if the votes of Iberdrola […]

  • US Democratic Senators Introduce Offshore Wind Incentives Act

    9 June 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    US Democratic senators Edward J. Markey, representing Massachusetts, and Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island, have introduced The Offshore Wind Incentives for New Development (WIND) Act which would extend the 30 percent Investment Tax Credit for offshore wind through 2025. Last year’s omnibus bill extended the Production Tax Credit (PTC) and Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for wind until 2019, but […]

  • USA: BOEM to Determine Interest in West Coast Offshore Wind Development

    30 September 2013
    Authorities

    As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, cut carbon pollution, and develop domestic energy sources, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued a request to determine whether there is competitive interest in leasing an area offshore Oregon that Principle Power, Inc. has proposed for a pilot-scale floating wind energy […]

  • BOEM Defines Three Wind Energy Areas Off North Carolina

    12 August 2014
    Authorities

    The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has defined three Wind Energy Areas offshore North Carolina, which total approximately 307,590 acres, for potential commercial wind energy development. The Wind Energy Areas, announced yesterday by Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, include the Kitty Hawk Wind Energy Areas (about 122,405 acres), the Wilmington West Wind Energy Areas (about 51,595 […]

  • Mayflower Wind Orders Hybrid Electric Crew Transfer Vessel

    15 October 2021
    Vessels

    Mayflower Wind, a 50/50 joint venture between Shell New Energies US and Ocean Winds, has signed an agreement with Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding/Duclos Corporation for the specification, design, and manufacture of a Jones Act-compliant, hybrid diesel electric crew transfer vessel (CTV). The multi-party agreement, which also includes Incat Crowther, BAR Technologies, Corvus Energy, and ABS as collaborators, […]

  • TGS Adds New Locations to Its US East Coast Multi-Client LiDAR Campaign

    9 March 2023
    Business development, R&D, Research & Development

    Norway-based energy data and intelligence provider, TGS, has added four more locations on the US East Coast to its multi-client offshore wind and metocean measurement campaign. In addition to their floating LiDAR buoy in the New York Bight, TGS announced four further deployments, one offshore Massachusetts, two covering the impending Central Atlantic lease round, and […]

  • Eversource Sells Seabed Acreage Offshore US to JV Partner Ørsted for USD 625 Million

    8 September 2023
    Business & Finance

    Eversource Energy has completed its sale of an uncommitted lease area off the south coast of Massachusetts to its joint venture (JV) partner Ørsted for USD 625 million. The all-cash transaction, which was announced in May, closed today following approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. The deal with Eversource provides […]

  • BOEM Completes Vineyard Wind’s Supplement to EIS

    10 June 2020
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed a Supplement to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project, planned to be built off the coast of Massachusetts. The Notice of Availability (NOA) for the document, which will open a 45-day public comment period, is set to be […]

  • Cape Wind to Get USD 150 Mln Loan from DOE

    1 July 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The developers of the Cape Wind offshore wind farm received a conditional loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), which would support the project with an additional USD 150 million.  The final decision to award the loan will be made after Cape Wind Associates LLC finalizes project financing. “When they come back to […]

  • US offshore wind opportunities in 2018

    12 April 2018

    By: Jason Deign, for New Energy Update The US offshore wind sector ended 2017 on a slightly ironic note. Plans for Cape Wind, which was supposed to have been the country’s first offshore wind farm, were finally shuttered after a long period of uncertainty.[1] But prospects for the rest of the market looked better than […]

  • USA: Cape Wind Opponents Against USD 4.3 Billion State Incentive

    26 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    Cape Wind opponents are blasting the nearly $4.3 billion in potential taxpayer and ratepayer levies for the proposed Nantucket Sound wind turbine project in recent comments and public testimony before Congress. During her testimony, Audra Parker, President and CEO of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, criticized the exorbitant and duplicative federal and state breaks […]

  • Windar Wins Vineyard Wind Work

    17 June 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Spain’s Windar Renovables has won a contract to manufacture and deliver 84 transition pieces for the 800MW Vineyard Wind offshore wind farm in Massachusetts, US. The contract covers the manufacture, certification, assembly, inspection, storage and delivery of the 84 transition pieces. The value of the contract is close to EUR 100 million and it will […]

  • Equinor Gathers Metocean Team for US Offshore Wind

    8 June 2018
    Contracts & Tenders

    Norway’s Equinor (formerly Statoil) has contracted RPS engineers and scientists from Australia and the US to develop a long-term meteorological and oceanographic (metocean) measurement program for a potential wind farm development off the east coast of the US.

  • First Foundations for Block Island OWF on Their Way (VIDEO)

    7 July 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    Loading the first jacket foundations for Block Island offshore wind farm onto a barge that will ship them to the installation site started on Friday, according to social media posts by Deepwater Wind’s CEO Jeff Grybowski. Subject to weather conditions, the barge is expected to arrive to the offshore construction site by mid-July. All five foundations are […]

  • Cape Wind Wins Lawsuit while Being Sued Again

    23 January 2014
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    After a lawsuit, submitted on January 21 against Massachusetts regulators, NSTAR and Cape Wind, the offshore wind project’s developers won a legal battle that had commenced prior to this one. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) approval of the Cape Wind project, rejecting arguments […]

  • America’s First Offshore Wind Farm Goes Live

    12 December 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    America’s first offshore wind farm entered commercial operation today. “The Block Island Wind Farm is now operational, the first offshore wind farm to deliver energy to the American power grid,” Deepwater Wind stated via social media this evening (12 December). According to recent media reports, the wind farm should have entered full commercial operation with four […]

  • Vineyard Wind Opens Permanent Office in Boston

    19 June 2019
    Business & Finance

    Vineyard Wind, the developer of an 800MW offshore wind project in Massachusetts, U.S., has opened a permanent office in Boston. According to Vineyard Wind, the new workplace will accommodate the company’s growing staff and provide a range of services for the 800MW wind farm and other projects in earlier stages of development. The company plans to […]

  • USA: EEA, BOEM to Organize Public Meetings Regarding Offshore Wind Development Process

    16 July 2012
    Authorities

    Officials of the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) will participate in a U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) public informational meeting in New Bedford on Tuesday, July 17, 2012. The purpose of the meeting is to receive public comment on BOEM’s Environmental Assessment for the potential development […]

  • Equinor’s New York Bight LiDAR Takes to Water

    12 February 2019
    R&D

    Equinor Wind US has shared a video showing the recent deployment of a Floating LiDAR at its offshore wind lease site in the New York Bight. This content is available after accepting the cookies. Change cookie-settings View on Youtube. The Floating LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) will measure wind speed and direction, wave conditions and […]

  • MAKE: North America to Add 2.2GW of Offshore Wind by 2026

    2 May 2017
    Business & Finance, R&D

    Developers in the US will install approximately 2.2GW of offshore wind capacity by 2026, MAKE Consulting said in its latest report.