PROVIDENCE – It came an hour and 40 minutes into a hearing on the latest offshore wind farm to move through the Rhode Island certification process, and the allegation was nothing new. Opponents of the ...

PROVIDENCE — The electric cables for the Block Island Wind Farm were supposed to be buried in trenches at least four feet below the seabed, but workers couldn’t get down as far as they wanted, and ...

Wind-generated electricity has become a big business in the United States. From virtually nothing a decade ago, it has boomed to account for about 5 percent of electricity generated each year. In ...

BLOCK ISLAND, R.I. --Fifteen miles off the coast of Rhode Island stand 600-foot turbines, anchored in 90 feet of Atlantic waters. They are expected to generate enough energy to power 17,000 homes. “We ...

Any day now, America's first offshore wind farm, off Block Island, will begin commercial operation. Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Ed Markey says the project will tap into a vast new source of renewable ...

The study ‘doesn’t tell you what 100 turbines are going to be like, said Drew Carey, an author of the study and CEO of the Newport-based firm INSPIRE Environmental. ‘(But) it should allay the fears ...

Check out these photos of its impressive installation process. A milestone for American renewable energy that has been almost a decade in the making is nearing completion off the coast of Rhode Island ...