Offshore Wind

Washington Times: 2 Louisiana firms play important roles in offshore wind farm

Washington Times | Monday, September 14, 2015 NEW ORLEANS (AP) - With construction underway, two Louisiana firms with roots in the oil and gas industry are playing a leading part in what could be the nation’s first offshore wind farm. Once it’s operating next year, […]

NOIA Congratulates Deepwater Wind as Block Island Wind Farm Onsite Construction Begins

For Immediate Release:  Monday, July 27, 2015 Contact:  Nicolette Nye (202) 465-8463, nnye@nullnoia.org NOIA Congratulates Deepwater Wind as Block Island Wind Farm Onsite Construction Begins Washington, D.C. – – NOIA President Randall Luthi today issued the following statement applauding historic “steel in the water” for Deep […]

NYT: Offshore Wind Farm Raises Hopes of U.S. Clean Energy Backers

New York Times, Thursday July 24, 2015 A few miles off the coast of Block Island, part of Rhode Island, a small flotilla has been gathering: crane vessels, tugboats and barges that began this week installing the 1,500-ton foundations of the nation’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm. […]

Planning for Md. offshore wind project gets underway

By Timothy B. Wheeler, Jun. 22, 2015, The Baltimore Sun The energy of offshore wind is beginning to be felt in Maryland long before any of the giant turbines have been planted off the coast. Survey vessels recently began examining the Atlantic Ocean bottom off Ocean […]

Louisiana builder is hard at work on R.I.’s offshore wind turbines

By Alex Kuffner, Jun. 13, 2015, Providence Journal HOUMA, La. — When it comes down to it, there’s not much difference between a foundation for an offshore oil platform and one for an offshore wind turbine. So in 2014, when Deepwater Wind set out to […]

Major financing deal puts R.I. project on track to be nation’s first offshore wind farm

Elizabeth Harball, E&E reporter It is now all but certain that a 30-megawatt pilot project in Rhode Island state waters will be America's first offshore wind farm. Deepwater Wind, the Providence, R.I.-based developer behind the Block Island project, announced this week that it had closed […]

Two utilities opt out of Cape Wind

Future of Nantucket Sound turbine project in doubt as purchase contracts are terminated By Jim O’Sullivan GLOBE STAFF JANUARY 07, 2015 The Cape Wind plan was dealt a major setback Tuesday when two power companies that had agreed to buy energy from the Nantucket Sound […]

NOIA Comments on New BOEM Director

For Immediate Release: Thursday, December 18, 2014 Contact:  Nicolette Nye, (202) 465-8463, nicolette@nullnoia.org  NOIA Comments on New BOEM Director  Washington, D.C. – National Ocean Industries Association President Randall Luthi today issued the following statement regarding selection of Abigail Hopper as Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy […]

Obama’s “All-of-the-Above” Energy Strategy Doesn’t Go Far Enough

For Immediate Release: Thursday, May 29, 2014 Contact:  Robert Myers, (202) 465-8464 or (786) 256-1611, rmyers@nullnoia.org  Obama’s “All-of-the-Above” Energy Strategy Doesn’t Go Far Enough  Washington, D.C. –Announcing  its “All-of-the-Above” energy strategy today, the Obama Administration rightfully celebrates the United States’ new position as the largest […]

NOIA Applauds Proposed Wind Auction Offshore Maryland

For Immediate Release: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 Contact:  Nicolette Nye, (202) 465-8463, nicolette@nullnoia.org NOIA Applauds Proposed Wind Auction Offshore Maryland Calls for action on Atlantic Seismic EIS  Washington, D.C. – National Ocean Industries Association President Randall Luthi today issued the following statement on DOI’s announcement of a […]
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