On Sunday afternoon, Deepwater Wind installed the first of 5 steel foundations for the offshore wind turbines 3 miles off of Block Island. The Providence Journal reported that the 440-ton …
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On Sunday afternoon, Deepwater Wind installed the first of 5 steel foundations for the offshore wind turbines 3 miles off of Block Island. The Providence Journal reported that the 440-ton installations were meant to be installed on Thursday, but bad weather postponed the crew until Sunday. Once completed the offshore wind farm will consist of 5 turbines that will each have a capacity of 6 megawatts. This will be not only Rhode Island’s first offshore wind farm, but also America’s. The foundation was installed just in time for Deepwater Wind’s Steel in the Water Celebration Monday, which invited congressional leaders including U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, and Congressmen Jim Langevin and David Cicilline. Governor Gina Raimondo was also on the tour along with U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Abigail Ross Hopper among others. This aerial photograph taken earlier last week shows the barge with two of the foundations and the Weeks 533, the largest floating revolving crane on the East Coast in waters offshore before the installation started. (Photo courtesy of Captain Howard McVay)
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