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GE Vernova, the company that built the blade that failed on a Vineyard Wind turbine south of the islands, says it will re-examine every blade it has built for offshore wind.
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A large piece of fiberglass debris from the damaged Vineyard Wind turbine blade has sunk to the ocean floor, as the debris cleanup continues.
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Nantucket is facing a prolonged clean-up, potentially, after debris from a broken offshore wind turbine blade has begun washing up on the island's south-facing beaches.
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Debris has been moving toward Nantucket from the location of the turbines, 15 miles southwest of the island and south of Martha’s Vineyard. The company said it is deploying two teams of four people to Nantucket to remove debris from this island’s south-facing beaches.
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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has approved a construction and operations plan for New England Wind 1 and 2, formerly called Park City Wind and Commonwealth Wind.
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An association that represents 22 towns on Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket is asking for more time to comment on plans for offshore wind lease areas off the Outer Cape.
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Sprague Energy, which owns the nearby Mack Point terminal in Searsport, is making its own case that the state of Maine's proposed wind port should be located there.
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Plans are moving forward for research on floating offshore wind turbines in the Gulf of Maine. Floating turbines are expected to be used for future offshore wind farms off the Lower and Outer Cape.
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The Biden administration has proposed eight new areas, totaling nearly 1 million acres, for lease to wind developers in the Gulf of Maine.
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If approved, the federal grant would cover about two-thirds of the nearly $760 million that the state of Maine estimates it will need to build the port and a heavy-lift semi-submersible barge that's needed to launch the floating wind turbine foundations.