Wind

Students at the Brown University Climate and Development Lab created a map of the "anti-offshore wind network" opposing U.S. wind energy projects. Brown University/CDL graphic.

Brown University researchers ‘map’ anti-offshore wind movement

Kirk Moore

The Bureau of Offshore Energy Management opened bidding Dec. 6, 2022 on 373.267 acres of federal waters off California for offshore wind energy development. BOEM graphic.

BOEM to conduct environmental review on California offshore wind lease areas

WorkBoat Staff

Bureau of Offshore Energy Management image.

BOEM announces environmental review for California wind leases

WorkBoat Staff

Photo courtesy of Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

WorkBoat + Wind Vol. 4, No. 12

WorkBoat Staff

The Sparrows Point Steel site in Baltimore County, Md., was once home to Bethlehem Steel. The Maritime Administration will provide a $47 million grant for upgrades to support offshore wind foundation and tower manufacturing there. Sparrows Point Steel graphic

Biden administration still committed to offshore wind in the Central Atlantic

WorkBoat Staff

A final environmental assessment for the Sunrise Wind energy project recommends reducing the number of turbines to protect cod habitat and avoid seafloor geology resistant to pile driving. BOEM graphic.

BOEM completes Sunrise Wind review, announces new Atlantic lease offers

Kirk Moore

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock is building the first U.S.-flagged Jones Act-compliant, inclined fallpipe vessel for subsea rock installation. The 461'x112' vessel will service the U.S. offshore wind energy industry. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock rendering

Great Lakes Dredge awarded third wind rock installation contract

WorkBoat Staff

The first of 12 turbines to be built at the South Fork Wind site 35 miles off Long Island, N.Y., began delivering power Dec. 6. Ørsted video image.

First power from South Fork Wind project off New York

WorkBoat Staff

New York State Energy Research and Development Authority photo.

Gulf operators see offshore wind slowing but not stopping

Kirk Moore

A right whale female named Fission by scientists with an unnamed juvenile male whale is shown during an aerial survey over southern New England waters in March 2023. New England Aquarium photo/NOAA research permit #25739.

NOAA experts: Listen early for whales before wind project work

Kirk Moore

The installation vessel Orion began setting the first of 62 turbine towers for the Vineyard Wind energy project off southern Massachusetts. Vineyard Wind image.

Congress looks to boost job training for offshore wind industry

Pamela Glass