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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- 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 U.S. does not have a single commercial-scale offshore wind farm, but it will soon.
New Bedford aspires to light the world once again with offshore wind energy many years after exporting whale oil for lamps.
The U.S. does not have a single commercial-scale offshore wind farm, but it will soon.
The United States does not yet have a single commercial-scale offshore wind farm. But it will soon.