A planned offshore wind farm moved a step closer to construction Tuesday with the Department of the Interior announcing it has approved the project. Revolution Wind will be located in federal waters near Rhode Island and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. It will have an estimated capacity of more than 700 megawatts of renewable energy, capable of powering nearly 250,000 homes. The department approved a plan for fewer turbines than originally proposed by the developer to help protect visual resources and ocean floor habitat. The project is expected to create about 1,200 jobs during construction. It’s the department’s fourth approval of a commercial-scale, offshore wind energy project and will join projects off Massachusetts and New Jersey.
A planned offshore wind farm moved a step closer to construction Tuesday with the Department of the Interior announcing it has approved the project, to be located in federal waters near Rhode Island south of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
It's the department's fourth approval of a commercial-scale, offshore wind energy project, joining the Vineyard Wind project off Massachusetts, the South Fork Wind project off Rhode Island and New York, and the Ocean Wind 1 project off New Jersey. "Together with industry, labor and partners from coast to coast, we are building an entirely new industry off the east and west and Gulf coasts,” Haaland said in a statement.
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