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The tower, three blades and nacelle weigh more than 1,700 tons.
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As a golden sunrise lights up New Bedford’s commercial fishing fleet, an unusual passenger ship is steaming out of the harbor toward Vineyard Wind.
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It was recently outfitted with a larger crane to handle increasingly larger wind turbines, including the General Electric Haliade-X model used by Vineyard Wind.
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They are the third and last major component — along with tower sections and blades — to arrive before the first turbines can be installed.
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Commonwealth parent company Avangrid sought to renegotiate the contracts last year, saying costs had risen too high. But the state refused.
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The Conservation Commission hearing will deal with the company’s plan to tunnel electrical cables under the west end of Craigville Beach and the Centerville River.
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Workers stacked the blades three high on the far side of the offshore wind terminal, where they will wait to be ferried out to the wind farm starting this summer.
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The action by SouthCoast Wind follows Commonwealth Wind, which made the same decision late last year.
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Dignitaries gathered at the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal on Thursday to celebrate the arrival of wind-turbine components for Vineyard Wind.
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This week: Vineyard Wind takes delivery of the very first pieces for its very first offshore wind tower. The machine gun range gets a hearing with the EPA. And now we know what’s in the water that nuclear plant owner Holtec wants to dump into Cape Cod Bay. A big week in news!