Deepwater Wind announced today that the Block Island Wind Farm has completed its commissioning and testing phases and begun commercial operations, delivering electricity into the New England region’s grid on a regular basis. The energy produced from the Block Island Wind Farm is linked to the New England grid by National Grid’s new sea2shore submarine transmission cable system.
The Block Island Wind Farm consists of five 6-MW “Haliade” wind turbines made by GE. The wind farm will be able to provide 90 percent of the electricity needs of the island, located three miles off the coast of Rhode Island, replacing diesel generators the island’s residents have relied on until now.
— source treehugger.com, dwwind.com