for everyday items in the u.s. increased demand and a labor shortage are partly to blame for the back-up. steve patterson went out on the water to see the massive efforts to get ships moving and products into the country reporter: off the port of los angeles, tugboat captain josiah is full speed ahead. we ll watch you disconnect and get underway reporter: is it even busier than usual because of the back-up? yeah. it s been busy for a while. it seems like more ships anchor reporter: more ships than ever before. a record setting traffic jam. nearly 80 ships each carrying as many as 14,000 containers, and each container filled with tens of thousands of dollars of goods, desperately wanted by american consumers it is stuff that people are ordering or shipping or sent. yeah. this is the season when we re
New Wind Farm To Increase West Virginia s Wind Power By Nearly 15%
Bechtel and Reed & Reed joint venture selected to deliver new Black Rock Wind Farm
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RESTON, Va., Jan. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Clean, renewable energy for West Virginia residents surged forward today when Clearway Energy Group selected the Bechtel-Reed & Reed Joint Venture, to build its Black Rock wind farm in Grant County and Mineral counties. The new wind farm represents a nearly 15% increase in the state s wind power and will produce enough green energy to power 34,000 homes.
The Bechtel-Reed & Reed team, will engineer, procure, and construct the farm. The project will include twenty-three Siemens-Gamesa SG 5.0-145 wind turbines on 107.5-meter tall towers, producing 115 MW of electricity at the point interconnection to the First Energy electrical grid.