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Installation of undersea cables to connect the nation’s first utility-scale offshore wind farm to the grid has begun 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard. Vineyard Wind 1 will consist of 62 turbines, generating enough electricity to power more than 400,000 homes and businesses. The laying of cable is a slow process and requires two vessels: one to unroll miles of cable, and another to bury the cable below the seabed 5 to 8 feet. The vessels move less than one mile per hour, and the process is highly weather dependent, Vineyard Wind CEO Klaus Moeller said. “With two vessels following each ...

Avangrid Renewables says it needs a change to its electricity purchasing agreement with the state for the project to remain economically viable.

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Commonwealth Wind filed a motion for a one-month delay in DPU's review, telling the state that their project can no longer move forward as planned.

The company behind the future 1,200 megawatt Commonwealth Wind project is looking to rewrite it power contract with Massachusetts