Commonwealth Wind News Today

Another wind project on the East Coast may face challenges with turbine installation due to glauconite, a soil that crushes under high pressure. Preliminary geotechnical analysis for New England Wind, an Avangrid project, showed a risk of turbine pile foundation refusal in 50 of nearly 130 turbine locations, or about 40%, according to 2023 records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. 

Two offshore wind projects proposed to land on Barnstable beaches pass key permitting milestone.

Jeffrey Rissman’s book explains how to get heavy industry to near-zero emissions.

Completion of federal review represents critical step in permitting for lease area with potential to provide approximately 2 Gigawatts of clean, reliable power to the region ...

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Offshore wind development is critical to the Biden administration's clean energy push.

 Regulatory efforts continue to accelerate pushing forward with the plans to develop the U.S. offshore wind energy sector. The U.S. Department of the...

Avangrid, a leading sustainable energy company and member of the Iberdrola Group, submitted multiple proposals for mature, transformative New England Wind projects to the Massachusetts-Connecticut-Rhode Island multi-state solicitation for offshore wind power.

Massachusetts is seeking as much as 3,600 megawatts of offshore wind capacity in its fourth procurement round, its biggest procurement ever. And through a tri-state partnership with Rhode Island and Connecticut, Massachusetts and its neighbors are planning to coordinate their selections for a combined 6,000 MW of offshore wind energy capacity, leading to the possibility of multi-state projects although the newly submitted bids in the aggregate fall short of reaching that 6,000 MW threshold.

Following more than a year of tumult in the industry that called into question the future of offshore wind in New England, Massachusetts and its southern neighbors on Wednesday got the menu of options for the next phase of clean energy development. Massachusetts is seeking as much as 3,600 megawatts of offshore wind capacity in […]