Interior Department approves first large-scale offshore wind farm in the U.S.
The Vineyard Wind project envisions building 62 turbines off Martha’s Vineyard producing enough electricity to power 400,000 homes
As reported by the Washington Post.
The 800 Megawatt-electric (MW-e) Vineyard Wind project will almost be enough to entirely replace all the commercial nuclear power capacity that has ever operated in Massachusetts: Pilgrim, 677 MW-e (which operated from 1972 to 2019), and Yankee Rowe, 185 MW-e (which operated from 1960 to 1992).
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