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These news and opinion items are gathered by National Wind Watch in its noncommercial educational effort to help keep readers informed about developments related to industrial wind energy. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions of National Wind Watch. They are the products of and owned by the organizations or individuals noted and are shared here according to “fair use” and “fair dealing” provisions of copyright law.


October 20, 2023 • Massachusetts, New York, U.S.Print storyE-mail story

A tricky, sticky mineral that’s challenging offshore wind developers

Offshore wind developers are encountering an unexpected challenge on the East Coast seafloor: a crushable, green mineral called glauconite, sometimes precisely where they plan to install wind turbines. The mineral – which dates back to the age of the dinosaurs – is weaker and less predictable than sand, scientists say, presenting a new engineering puzzle for researchers and wind developers to solve. Glauconite’s behavior poses a “significant risk” to offshore wind development, said a paper published this year by the U.S. Bureau . . . Complete story »


October 11, 2023 • MassachusettsPrint storyE-mail story

Barnstable Town Council reins in offshore wind projects, pausing further action for now

With the future of Avangrid’s Park City Wind and Commonwealth Wind projects in limbo after the offshore wind developer backed out of previously negotiated power purchase agreements in two states, members of the Barnstable Town Council are reining in further action related to the projects, for now. The board voted unanimously not only to pull back their prior authorization for Town Manager Mark Ells to begin negotiating a host community agreement for Commonwealth Wind, but also to postpone officially signing . . . Complete story »


October 4, 2023 • MassachusettsPrint storyE-mail story

DPU approves termination of SouthCoast wind contract

The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities on Monday gave its blessing to an agreement terminating offshore wind contracts between the state’s three utilities and SouthCoast Wind, even as utilities in Connecticut moved to terminate an offshore wind contract there. The agreement approved by the DPU requires SouthCoast to pay a total of $60 million in termination fees, which will be rebated to customers, while allowing the joint venture of Shell Energy Ventures and Ocean Wind North America to walk away . . . Complete story »


September 25, 2023 • MassachusettsPrint storyE-mail story

“Road toward extinction” – Nantucket group appeals Vineyard Wind decision

A group of Nantucket residents has appealed the dismissal of a lawsuit aimed at stopping the Vineyard Wind offshore wind energy project, which is currently under construction in the waters southwest of the island. The group ACK For Whales – formerly known as Nantucket Residents Against Turbines – filed the appeal Saturday with the First Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals and is seeking to overturn the May 2023 decision of U.S. District Court judge Indira Talwani, who dismissed . . . Complete story »


State governors seeking federal help for offshore wind industry

A group of U.S. governors is calling on the Biden administration to help ease the “extraordinary economic challenges” that have combined to threaten not only future offshore wind development, but also the number of projects that are already under way. In a letter submitted to the White House, the governors of Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island say “inflationary pressures, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the lingering supply-chain disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic” have resulted . . . Complete story »


August 23, 2023 • MassachusettsPrint storyE-mail story

DPU approves termination of offshore wind contract

The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities on Wednesday approved without comment the termination of an offshore wind power purchase agreement negotiated between Eversource and Commonwealth Wind and approved by the DPU at the end of last year. Avangrid, the developer behind Commonwealth Wind, sought the termination after it concluded rising inflation, supply chain disruptions, and the war in Ukraine had made it impossible to finance the project under the existing terms of the power purchase agreement. The termination agreement was . . . Complete story »


July 14, 2023 • Massachusetts, Rhode IslandPrint storyE-mail story

Rhode Island puts pause on key part of offshore wind project

State regulators have hit the pause button on permitting for a transmission line that would run up the Sakonnet River from SouthCoast Wind’s large offshore wind farm proposed in ocean waters south of Martha’s Vineyard. The Rhode Island Energy Facility Siting Board voted unanimously on Thursday to stay the application process for the cable that SouthCoast Wind needs to deliver electricity to the mainland grid from its proposed $5-billion project that would power more than a million homes. What led . . . Complete story »


June 24, 2023 • Massachusetts, Print storyE-mail story

Whale carcasses on Martha’s Vineyard fuel speculation about wind turbines

The unusual spate of whale deaths coincides with the early stages of a massive expansion of offshore wind in waters off the East Coast. Vineyard Wind this month became the first of over a dozen offshore wind developers to begin construction. Conservation groups and offshore wind critics are calling for an investigation into the deaths of two humpback whales that washed up on the shores of Martha’s Vineyard last week. On Monday, June 12, a decomposing humpback whale was found . . . Complete story »


June 13, 2023 • MassachusettsPrint storyE-mail story

Avangrid and Shell–Ocean Winds face $60m in fines for nixed Massachusetts projects

But will be allowed to re-bid. Massachusetts developers may face fines of up to $60m for withdrawing projects but will still likely be allowed to bid into the state’s upcoming round 4 offshore wind solicitation, the chair of the legislature’s telecommunications, utilities and energy committee said. Developers seeking to kill projects will pay “to the tune of $48m to $60m … in penalties in order to terminate these contracts,” said legislator Jeffrey Roy of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. “I . . . Complete story »


June 13, 2023 • Massachusetts, Rhode IslandPrint storyE-mail story

SouthCoast Wind backs away from Mass. power agreement

“What we’ve seen in the period of time since the [power purchase agreements] were executed is a very significant deterioration of the project’s economics driven by inflation, supply train constraints, war in Ukraine and also very dramatic rises in interest rates,” SouthCoast Wind CEO Francis Slingsby explained at Monday’s hearing. Complete story »


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