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This photograph, taken on June 13, 2017, shows the Block Island Wind Farm, Rhode Island.
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Ground has been broken on a project dubbed the United States’ “first commercial scale offshore wind farm.”
The construction’s kickoff, which took place on Thursday, represents another step forward for America’s fledgling offshore wind sector. Located in waters 15 miles off Martha’s Vineyard, near Cape Cod in Massachusetts, it’s hoped that the 800-megawatt Vineyard Wind 1 facility will start sending power to the grid in 2023.
Vineyard Wind 1 is being built by Vineyard Wind LLC, a 50-50 joint venture between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and Avangrid…
Source cnbc.com
