Skanska - Mon April 29, 2024
Skanska Awarded Contract to Develop Offshore Wind Port at South Brooklyn Marine Terminal
Skanska, a global construction and development firm, announced a contract award worth $861 million to transform the 73-acre South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT) into one of the nation's largest dedicated offshore wind ports....
Summer Ballentine -Associated Press - Wed November 08, 2023
Multi-State Transmission Line Will Increase Capacity for Missouri
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) Regulators on Oct. 12 gave the go-ahead for a multistate wind-energy power line to provide the equivalent of four nuclear power plants' worth of energy to Missouri consumers. At issue is the Grain Belt Express, a power line that will carry wind energy from Kansas across Missouri and Illinois before hooking into a power grid in Indiana that serves eastern states....
NJ.com - Mon October 09, 2023
Construction of New Jersey's First Ocean Wind Project Gets Going Onshore
Onshore construction for New Jersey's first offshore wind farm kicked off in Lacey Township on Oct. 2, with work slated to continue at Island Beach State Park through next year. The next steps include work to ultimately install copper and aluminum cables meant to connect with the electric grid at substations located at former power plants in Ocean and Cape May counties....
Cape Cod Times & Politico - Mon August 07, 2023
Vineyard Wind 1 Project Under Way in Waters Off Massachusetts Could Power Up by October
America's first major offshore wind farm is coming into focus on waters off Massachusetts. Out past the state's famed islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, the Atlantic Ocean rises and falls around a massive, bright yellow structure that soon will serve as the foundation for a turbine tower that will spin wind into power....
U.S. Department of the Interior & Ørsted - Mon July 10, 2023
New Jersey's Coastal Waters to Be Site of U.S.'s Third Major Offshore Wind Project
The federal Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced July 5 that it had approved a plan for the construction and operation of the Ocean Wind 1 project in the Atlantic Ocean off the New Jersey coast, about 13 nautical miles southeast of Atlantic City....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Thu June 15, 2023
William J. Keller & Sons Preps Land for 'Once-in-a-Generation' Project in N.Y.
The Port of Albany, located in upstate New York, is an important transportation center 160 mi. west of Boston and 124 nautical mi. from New York City. Sitting astride the Hudson River, the port has 5,400 ft....
Associated Press - Wed May 31, 2023
U.S. Greenlights Transmission Line for Renewable Energy
The U.S. government is greenlighting a proposed multibillion-dollar transmission line that would send primarily wind-generated electricity from the rural plains of New Mexico to big cities in the West....
Manitowoc - Thu March 23, 2023
Canada's First Grove GMK6400-1 Kick-Starts New Era for A.W. Leil Cranes and Equipment
Following its December 2022 delivery to A.W. Leil Cranes and Equipment, the first Grove GMK6400-1 to arrive in Canada has sparked a revival in fortune for the Nova Scotia-based rental services provider....
The Salem News - Tue March 21, 2023
Work to Start This Summer in Massachusetts On Wind Terminal in Salem Harbor
This year promises to be critical for the harbor in Salem, Mass., with construction of an offshore wind turbine marshalling yard beginning there late in the summer, and the beginning of measures to protect and enhance the neighborhood next to the site unfolding prior to that....
Manitowoc - Thu March 09, 2023
Wide Boom Plus Inserts Help Manitowoc MLC300 VPC-MAX Punch Above Its Size Class
Early feedback from leading players in the renewable energy industry highlights the huge operational and efficiency advantages gained by Manitowoc's new Wide Boom Plus insert kit for its MLC300 VPC-MAX lattice-boom crawler crane....
