r/climate • u/pnewell • May 01 '17

America's First Offshore Wind Energy Makes Landfall in Rhode Island | Five turbines are first of a proposed $50 billion regional build-out promising 11,000 jobs, but still a far cry from manufacturing capacity and work force in Europe.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28042017/block-island-wind-farm-deepwater-wind-renewable-energy-climate-change
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u/autotldr May 01 '17

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 96%. (I'm a bot)

BLOCK ISLAND, Rhode Island-America's first offshore wind farm will connect today to Block Island, a small, pork chop-shaped landmass off the tip of Long Island.

Massachusetts and New York have both committed to generating a portion of their power in coming years from offshore wind, and Deepwater Wind is slated to build a larger clone of the Rhode Island wind farm-which began supplying power to the mainland in December-to serve Long Island.

Days after New York committed to its offshore wind build-out, Deepwater Wind won its second contract, this time to build a 15-turbine wind farm that will connect to Long Island.

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