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Renewables

Winds Of Change: Offshore Electricity Powers First American Homes

May 17, 2017
The small island sits off the coast of Rhode Island between the northeastern tip of New York’s Long Island and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. There, like the archetypal New Englander, it cuts a hardy and stout profile, with chin out, to face the battering North Atlantic Ocean, the bruising wind and the weather it brings.
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Renewables

Turnt4Turbines: Top Photogs Shoot Block Island Wind Farm

September 20, 2016
It’s the last week of summer. Sunset. You’re 3 miles out to sea, 500 feet above the churning waves in a little red helicopter with (you hope) a trusty seatbelt and no door.
Roughly at eye level, a white blade traces a sinuous line across the sky to the nacelle that holds the gears of an offshore wind turbine.

Grip your camera, lean out (but not too far, bucko!) and train it on the turbine backlit by a fiery sun. Find the turbine’s reflection in the aircraft’s tail. Snap.
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Turn, Turn, Turn! Block Island Wind Farm Construction Complete

August 22, 2016
America’s first offshore wind farm is ready to start making history.
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Offshore Wind

This Giant Ship With Legs Must Be The Strangest Sight On The Atlantic

July 21, 2016
From a luxury liner crossing the cold waters of the north Atlantic, Brave Tern may look like an uncharted island rising from the sea. But sail closer, and you will see an unusual ship making history. The boxy, 132-meter-long, 39-meter-wide wind turbine installation vessel framed by four soaring steel columns is carrying five massive nacelles for Deepwater Wind’s Block Island Wind Farm, America’s first offshore wind farm.
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Renewables

My Turbine Lies Over The Ocean: It Takes Herculean Labor To Build America’s First Offshore Wind Farm

July 06, 2016
Eric Crucerey and his team can move mountains. Well, maybe not mountains, but machines that dwarf the Statue of Liberty.
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Renewables

How GE Is Helping Build America’s 1st Offshore Wind Farm

Timothy Brown
March 18, 2016
New wind farms added more than a quarter of total new power generation capacity in the United States between 2010 and 2014, reaching 75,000 megawatts at the end of last year. No other country with the exception of China has more. But the race is on.
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Renewables

What America's First Offshore Wind Farm Reveals About GE’s Alstom Deal

November 04, 2015
Block Island is a teardrop-shaped piece of land some 13 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, U.S. It’s best known for its beaches, wind-swept bluffs and summer vacation homes. But a new attraction is quickly rising three miles off its southeastern shore.
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