Vineyard Wind has broken ground for its 806 MW Vineyard Wind 1 project in Barnstable, Massachusetts, setting the US on a road to its first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, which is also the first such project in the Americas region.
The groundbreaking ceremony took place on 18 November at Covell’s Beach, where the offshore wind farm will connect to the national grid on land, with the US Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Kathleen Theoharides, and Representative Bill Keating joining the team behind the project to celebrate the start of construction.