NEW YORK ― The company behind the first offshore wind farm in North America won approval Wednesday from New York state to build the country’s biggest seaward turbines yet. The Long Island Power Authority, a state-run utility company, gave Deepwater Wind the green light to begin construction on the South Fork Wind Farm, a 90-megawatt, 15-turbine development 30 miles southeast of Montauk. In November, Deepwater Wind completed construction on the Block Island Wind Farm, the five-turbine, 30-megawatt project that became the country’s first commercial wind farm located in the water. It’s unclear how many turbines would go up, but the company plans to build a wind farm producing at least 600 megawatts. Yet, even as the offshore wind industry boomed in Europe, tapping that resource has proved difficult.

Source: Huffington Post January 26, 2017 13:45 UTC