Vineyard Wind

The report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, a national nonprofit that supports offshore wind, examines last winter’s actual wind speeds to determine how much energy they could produce.

The offshore turbine project off the coast of Massachusetts was issued a stop work order by the Trump administration in December.

Vineyard Wind, a large and nearly complete offshore wind farm near Massachusetts, says the Trump administration violated the law when it ordered a construction pause in December.

Getting information about the state’s only offshore wind project under construction has been difficult in the last six months. CAI and the Martha’s Vineyard Times teamed up last week to visit Vineyard Wind by boat, to see what visual evidence we could find of the project status.

Commercial fishing interests sued the federal agencies involved in approving the wind farm, which is under construction 15 miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.

Three communities in Massachusetts have a lot to lose if the Trump administration succeeds in halting all offshore wind.

Wind developers Avangrid and Ocean Winds are scheduled to sign contracts with utilities Eversource, National Grid, and Unitil next Wednesday. Their wind farms, New England Wind 1 and SouthCoast Wind, have been approved by the Biden administration.

New jobs data from Vineyard Wind show the project has employed more than double the 500 union workers it promised. But how many workers come from southeastern Massachusetts is impossible to say — because of the way Vineyard Wind is collecting the data.

Michael Moore has spent decades studying critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. But the veterinarian, author, and scientist emeritus from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution had never seen an offshore wind farm up close — until last week.