With these major agreements, Deepwater Wind has now secured all debt and equity funding needed to construct and operate its 30-megawatt Block Island Wind Farm – already under construction.

There, it can flow into an electrical grid. Deepwater Wind/GE Each Block Island turbine has the capacity to generate 6 megawatts of power during its life cycle — enough to power 5,000 homes.

Deepwater Wind’s offshore foundation installation contractor set the first, 400-ton steel jacket on the sea floor on Sunday, July 26 at the wind farm site, roughly three miles off the Block ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The first offshore wind farm in the United States, installed in the waters off Block Island last fall, is now operating at full capacity after technicians repaired a turbine ...

BOSTON (AP) — Vineyard Wind, the wind farm under construction off the coast of Massachusetts, has begun delivering energy to the power grid from five of its planned 62 wind turbines, company and ...