The race has commenced between the Vineyard Wind project in Massachusetts and the South Fork Wind project in New York to be the first commercial-scale.
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The ship that brought the first six turbine blades for Vineyard Wind to New Bedford departed this morning after two days in port.
The heavy-load vessel Rolldock Sky is headed back to Gaspé, Québec, where it will pick up more blades from a General Electric factory on the Canadian coast, north of Nova Scotia. Additional blades will be coming from Cherbourg, France.
On the New Bedford waterfront, workers stacked the blades three high on the far side of the offshore wind terminal, where they will wait to be ferried out to the wind farm starting this summer.
Meanwhile, Vineyard Wind announced yesterday that installation of foundations for the 62 offshore wind turbines has begun about 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard.