"A Giant Wind Farm Is Taking Root Off Massachusetts"

"The offshore energy project will have turbines taller than any building in Boston, but they will be barely visible from Martha’s Vineyard."

"On a chilly June day, with the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard just over the distant horizon, a low-riding, green-hulled vessel finished hammering a steel column nearly 100 feet into the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

This was the beginning of construction of the first giant wind farm off the United States coast, a project with the scale to make a large contribution to the Northeast power grid.

For some of those looking on from a nearby boat, the driving in of the first piling marked a milestone they had labored to reach for two decades. The $4 billion project, known as Vineyard Wind, is expected to start generating electricity by year’s end."

Stanley Reed and Ivan Penn report for the New York Times June 27, 2023.

Source: NYTimes, 06/27/2023