Offshore wind turbines at Barrow Offshore Wind Farm in the Irish Sea.
Credit: Andy Dingley
Renewable energy is truly getting cheaper every day. The 800-megawatt wind farm Vineyard Wind project, the first large-scale offshore wind farm in the U.S., has offered a total levelized price of $65 per megawatt-hour (MWh)—a record low.
The planned wind farm, located 15 mies south of Martha’s Vineyard, will be jointly developed by Avangrid Inc. and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners. Their contract was filed Wednesday with the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities.
In all, Massachusetts electricity users will save about $1.4 billion over the 20-year duration of the contract, Bloomberg reported.
Energy expert Peter Kelly-Detwiler tweeted that the $65/MWh figure was “astonishing.” To put that price into context, he went on, the next record-low price for offshore wind was Maryland’s recent $131.9/MWh offer. Rhode Island’s Block Island wind farm is set at $244/MWh. Kriegers Flak, a proposed offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, will cost $73/MWh.
Bloomberg reported that Vineyard […]
I have just received an email from Margaret Klein Salamon of the Climate Mobilisation that along with the first US city, Berkley, now others have joined and declared a climate emergency. A great first step into the light from out of the dark:
Mobilizers,
We’re thrilled to announce that Richmond has followed Berkeley, CA, Montgomery County, Maryland, and Hoboken New Jersey and declared climate emergency and committed to emergency climate mobilization and to being an advocate for the cause!
Richmond City Council Member Eduardo Martinez, a retired educator and community activist, brought the resolution before the city council, and it passed unanimously! Send him a quick email to thank him for his leadership: eduardo_martinez@ci.richmond.ca.us.
If you’re interested in bringing climate mobilization to your city, please join us!
Onward!
Margaret Klein Salamon and Nicole Harris
The Climate Mobilization