An offshore wind project targeted by the Trump administration has begun sending power to New England’s electric grid, the developer said Friday.
The Danish company Orsted said Revolution Wind is now generating power and will scale up in the weeks ahead until it is fully operational. Orsted is building Revolution Wind with Global Infrastructure Partners’ Skyborn Renewables to provide electricity for Rhode Island and Connecticut, enough to power more than 350,000 homes and businesses.
Revolution Wind was one of five major East Coast offshore wind projects the Trump administration halted construction on days before Christmas, citing national security concerns. Developers and states sued, and federal judges allowed all five to resume construction, essentially concluding that the government did not show that the national security risk was so imminent that construction must halt.
If only we got these up and running before the pedo war maybe prices would be a bit better
Courtney also said Friday’s milestone “never would have happened without talented Connecticut building trades workers, who persevered through the Trump administration’s illegal halt work orders.”
this reads like a big shout-out to the unions.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, the Pedo$dent of the United States of America.
Making ANY progress difficult.
Republicans. 77 million Republicans voted for this. Most likely some of those trades workers voted to put Republicans in control.
77 million Republicans were given a choice to not put Republican politicians in charge.
Hey now! I keep getting told (mostly by so-called leftists and a great deal of never-trumpers, and of course many reactionary centrists) that we should never, ever blame the voters.
Apparently, all the blame for all the extremism of the far right conservatives and the dipshits that vote for them lies with…checks notes… the Democratic Party.
As a Massachusetts resident, please get me more cheap electricity. Please. I beg you. A $300 electric bill in the winter with oil heat is not okay.
Why is the electric bill high if you have oil heat? Mine is high cause I have electric heat. I miss the gas heating I had in my last apartment as it was much more efficient than the electric I have now
Oh also MA, I think, is one of the most expensive states for electricity.
Off my last bill, 21.95¢/kwH for delivery, 11.79¢/kwH for supply. And that was the last month of my contracted rate for supply, gonna go up a few more cents next month.
So total 33.74-ish cents per kwH.
Daaaaaaamn
My kids watch far too much TV and I work from home with a 3 monitor setup, and my work-issued computer has so much security bloat that it’s always running at 100. It’s a precision laptop. Takes a 180w power supply.
My gas bill in TX was over $300 this winter and we barely got below freezing. Brand new heating unit, energy efficient, cannot defeat the greed
But think of all that good clean coal sitting unused and unbought.
