Vineyard Wind, an offshore wind energy developer vying to build the first utility-scale project off the coast of Massachusetts, is transitioning its organization to prepare for the construction phase of its project. It recently named long-time offshore wind industry expert Lars Thaaning Pedersen as its new CEO and Iain Henderson as its CFO. Vineyard Wind […]
By Erich Stephens, CAPE COD TIMES The Cape Wind project was first proposed in 2001, six years before the first iPhone. A lot has changed for the better since 2001, and not just with cell phones. Today’s offshore wind turbines are now vastly more efficient than those proposed by Cape Wind, and can be installed […]
The $15-billion Energy East pipeline project is officially dead, but there is another potential multi-billion-dollar energy project on the horizon – and a clean energy one at that. Emera currently has a $4-billion proposal before the Massachusetts government to supply clean energy to the state from seven wind farms (five in New Brunswick, two in […]
By: JENNETTE BARNES, SOUTH COAST TODAY NEW BEDFORD — A new report details how much it would cost to ready each of 18 Massachusetts sites for offshore wind manufacturing, staging, and operations. Commissioned by the publicly funded Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and released on Tuesday, the 415-page engineering study lets developers compare the investments necessary […]
By DAVID BEATTY, CapeCod.com BARNSTABLE – It has been a while since potential wind turbines off the coast of the Cape have been the topic of a town council meeting in Barnstable. At their meeting last week, the Barnstable Town Council heard from Erich Stephens, the chief executive of Vineyard Wind, a company which is […]