The constantly blinking lights atop the Vineyard Wind offshore wind energy turbines could soon be turned off for most of the night.
The constantly blinking lights atop the Vineyard Wind offshore wind energy turbines could soon be turned off for most of the night.
Vineyard Offshore eliminated 50 positions in the U.S. and Europe, but none on the Vineyard.
Just hours after his inauguration, President Donald Trump ordered the federal government to conduct a review of the “ecological, economic, and environmental necessity of terminating or amending any existing wind energy leases."
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement lifted a suspension order Friday that initially prevented the construction and operation of the more than 800-feet tall turbines. One turbine is currently sending power to the mainland.
The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a legal challenge of the Vineyard Wind project lodged by a group of Nantucket residents.
The Biden administration approved plans to build a 141-turbine wind farm south of the Vineyard last week as another project off the Island’s coast appeared to be stalling out.