On the heels of another completed offshore wind project, officials at Revolution Wind also announced that the 65-turbine project has started to send power to the grid as construction wraps up.
The offshore wind project, jointly owned by Global Infrastructure Partners’ Skyborn Renewables and Ørsted, announced Friday that power began to be delivered to the grid. It is more than 90 percent complete and “several key construction scopes” are done, Ørsted’s construction updates webpage said.
Progress of the Revolution Wind project also bounced forward and backward in stops and starts for the better part of the last year. Developers were issued a stop-work order two separate times, once in August and, as with Vineyard Wind, once in December, by the federal government. A federal judge in the District Court for D.C. allowed work in both instances to continue as the court cases move forward.
The project, though visible off the coast of the Island, 12 miles southwest of Aquinnah, holds agreements with energy utilities in Rhode Island and Connecticut, not Massachusetts. The power generated travels by way of Narragansett Bay through an offshore cable that comes ashore at Quonset Business Park in North Kingstown, R.I. Onshore, the power travels to a substation connected to the grid.
Vineyard Wind 1 also made an announcement Friday that the project completed construction, though this project sent power to the grid from at least one turbine as early as Jan. 2 2024.
“The project, though visible off the coast of the Island and 12 miles southwest of Aquinnah”, this is the key component of this story. I find it truly sad that I no longer take visitors from off island to see the Gay Head Cliffs because the view is so awful! Why would I want to showcase a view of an industrial park off in the nearby ocean . We’ve reached a really sad degradation of the beauty of this island.
Or you can take them to view the fact that we are finally attempting to catch up with the rest of the planet in adoption of renewable energy. We are far behind other regions even within the USA.
I honestly feel sorry for you . Don’t take your friends on the Vineyard Haven -Edgartown road either. They might be totally freaked out by the really big and ugly telephone poles on that road– and it’s not just the poles— don’t even look at all those wires up there– talk about ugly—they’re so ugly you might go blind if you even look at them ! and not only that , they are really dangerous. Cars can crash into them and people die. And when we have storms, the wires can come down onto the road and electrocute people. And the ROUNDABOUT !!!! They are on the Edg-W.T road also I think the only thing you can do is tell your friends that the island is just too ugly to visit, and if you want to see them, you can go to wherever they are. I’m sure it’s much more beautiful wherever they are. Spin, baby, spin…