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Map: Vineyard Wind
It looks as if the huge Vineyard Wind project will start operating about 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard by late 2023, now that the Biden administration is close to giving it the final thumbs-up, though there still could be last-minute hitches. (The Trump regime much preferred power plants powered by fossil fuel and seemed to oppose the project.) All such big projects swim in politically tinged controversies and tangles of interest groups.
The wind farm would include 62 giant Boston-based General Electric turbines in the project’s first, 400-megawatt phase. The full project, at 800 megawatts, would be enough to provide the electricity for a total of 400,000 residential and business customers in Massachusetts. The turbines would be spaced more than a mile apart.
Gina Raimondo and Dan Mckee
Good luck to new U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, a smart former venture capitalist and Rhode Island governor who was most successful in the pre-pandemic part of her term, and her successor, Dan McKee, a soft-spoken former Cumberland mayor, education reformer and businessman. He’s taking over at a difficult time, of course, but, knock on wood, he’s probably escaped the worst crises of COVID-19, now that vaccinations are rapidly accelerating and the economy, in fits and starts, is reopening.
Mr. McKee, like Ms. Raimondo, is a moderate Democrat, which probably best fits today’s public-policy needs, at least until the national Republican Party pulls itself back from neo-fascism and orange-idol-worship.
Lifespan and Care New England
The plan for Lifespan and Care New England (CNE) to merge, if regulators approve it, would probably make Rhode Island health care more efficient. It would do this through integrating their hospitals and other units. That would do such things as speeding the sharing of patient information among health-care professionals and streamlining billing. Further, it would probably strengthen medical research and education in the state, much of it through the new enterprise’s very close links with the Alpert Medical School at Brown University, which, indeed, has pledged to provide at least $125 million over five years to help develop an “academic health system’’ as part of the merger.
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