Lucy Perry – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Tue November 19, 2024
Lift Planning Requires Strict Attention When Working On Wind Projects
Mobile cranes, especially crawlers and all-terrains, are critical components in wind turbine installation. When it comes to hoisting blades and tower sections into place, cranes provide the lifting capability contractors can't get with other machines....
Office of Maine Gov. Janet T. Mills - Mon October 14, 2024
Maine Signs Lease to Build, Operate Floating Offshore Wind Research Array
Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced in August that her state and the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) had agreed on a floating offshore wind research lease in the Gulf of Maine, a key milestone in the state's efforts to advance floating offshore wind research and promote responsible development of its use....
Manitowoc - Tue September 10, 2024
VIDEO: Manitowoc Crawler Cranes Help Boost Wind Energy Expansion in Maine
Sprague Energy is leading a large-scale project to unload and transport massive wind turbine components from vessels and rail off the coast of Searsport, Maine. The company is using a fleet of five Manitowoc crawler cranes to efficiently move components from sea vessels to holding yards and then onto trucks that will take them to various wind energy farms across the state....
Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs - Mon August 19, 2024
Gov. Maura Healy Kicks Off Work in Salem, Mass., On State's Second Offshore Wind Terminal
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll were on hand in Salem Aug. 15 to celebrate the groundbreaking of the that city's Offshore Wind Terminal, the state's second such facility after the New Bedford site....
The New Bedford Light & MassCEC - Mon August 19, 2024
New Bedford, Mass., Marine Terminal to Be Expanded to Handle Larger Wind Turbine Parts
To cement Massachusetts' position in the offshore wind industry, the state is expanding its first — as well as the country's first — marshaling site at the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal to handle bigger and heavier turbine components as several staging sites come online along the Atlantic Coast....
Maine Department of Transportation - Wed May 22, 2024
MaineDOT Applies for Federal Grant to Build Offshore Wind Port On Sears Island
The Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT) announced May 17 that it had applied for $456 million in grant funding from the federal government to help construct the East Coast's first floating offshore wind port on a portion of state-owned Sears Island that is reserved for port development....
Skanska - Mon April 29, 2024
Skanska Awarded Contract to Develop Offshore Wind Port at South Brooklyn Marine Terminal
Skanska, a global construction and development firm, announced a contract award worth $861 million to transform the 73-acre South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT) into one of the nation's largest dedicated offshore wind ports....
Summer Ballentine -Associated Press - Wed November 08, 2023
Multi-State Transmission Line Will Increase Capacity for Missouri
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) Regulators on Oct. 12 gave the go-ahead for a multistate wind-energy power line to provide the equivalent of four nuclear power plants' worth of energy to Missouri consumers. At issue is the Grain Belt Express, a power line that will carry wind energy from Kansas across Missouri and Illinois before hooking into a power grid in Indiana that serves eastern states....
NJ.com - Mon October 09, 2023
Construction of New Jersey's First Ocean Wind Project Gets Going Onshore
Onshore construction for New Jersey's first offshore wind farm kicked off in Lacey Township on Oct. 2, with work slated to continue at Island Beach State Park through next year. The next steps include work to ultimately install copper and aluminum cables meant to connect with the electric grid at substations located at former power plants in Ocean and Cape May counties....
Cape Cod Times & Politico - Mon August 07, 2023
Vineyard Wind 1 Project Under Way in Waters Off Massachusetts Could Power Up by October
America's first major offshore wind farm is coming into focus on waters off Massachusetts. Out past the state's famed islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, the Atlantic Ocean rises and falls around a massive, bright yellow structure that soon will serve as the foundation for a turbine tower that will spin wind into power....
