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Local and state officials and dignitaries stood in front of Roosevelt Middle School on Friday to celebrate New Bedfords new electric bus fleet.

The New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal became the landing site this week for parts of a massive turbine for the Vineyard Wind offshore wind development.

New Bedford aspires to light the world once again with offshore wind energy many years after exporting whale oil for lamps.

New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell and other officials celebrated the present, and looked to the future of offshore wind.

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — New Bedford was once the city that lit the world, exporting vast quantities of whale oil for lamps in the early 1800s. Workers packed the docks, unloading casks of oil that had been extracted at sea from whale carcasses and brought in by a fleet of hundreds of whaling ships.

The first ship carrying offshore wind towers from Europe pulled into a fishing port in Massachusetts on Wednesday, ending a 20-year wait for some residents.

The U.S. does not have a single commercial-scale offshore wind farm, but it will soon.

Dignitaries gathered at the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal on Thursday to celebrate the arrival of wind-turbine components for Vineyard Wind.

The United States does not yet have a single commercial-scale offshore wind farm. But it will soon.

In another sign that the U.S.’s ambitions to catch up and start its offshore wind power industry are finally showing progress, the first turbine compo...