John Walkey

Oct 18, 2023 | commonwealthmagazine.org | Colin Young |John Walkey

STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE The Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners joint venture announced Wednesday that the installation of the first of 62 turbine generators that will make up the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind project has been completed about 15 miles south of Martha's Vineyard, but project officials also backed off of a prior pledge that the project's first power would begin flowing onto the grid this month.

Oct 18, 2023 | commonwealthmagazine.org | John Walkey |Sue Tierney

SOMERSET IS CONSIDERING giving a $20 million tax break to the Prysmian Group to help build a subsea transmission cable manufacturing facility at Brayton Point. Prysmian has already received a $25 million grant from the state for dredging and the construction of a pier. The proposed tax cut won approval from one Somerset town committee but still requires the approval of the Board of Selectmen and town meeting.

Oct 15, 2023 | commonwealthmagazine.org | John Walkey |Sue Tierney

ONE OF THE BIGGEST prizes of the emerging offshore wind industry - an onshore subsea cable manufacturing facility providing jobs, tax revenue, and the beginnings of a US supply chain - is in danger of slipping away at Somerset's Brayton Point because of a dispute over a zoning condition.

Oct 13, 2023 | commonwealthmagazine.org | John Walkey |Sue Tierney

A FEDERAL JUDGE ruled against two fishing groups who were challenging federal environmental approvals granted to Vineyard Wind for the construction of its wind farm off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.

Oct 12, 2023 | commonwealthmagazine.org | John Walkey |Sue Tierney

NEW YORK OFFICIALS followed the lead of regulators in Massachusetts on Thursday, rejecting bids by four offshore wind developers to renegotiate the prices they were awarded in previously approved contracts because of sharply rising and unexpected costs.