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.
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