cape wind

Joseph Patrick Kennedy III, spare me your outrage. You are the greatest product of financial gain through public office, maybe in the history of mankind.

Cape Wind is ceasing development of its wind farm and giving up its federal lease, according to the Cape Cod Times.

Opponents of a proposed wind farm off Cape Cod are appealing a federal agency's decision to leave in place the long-stalled project's ocean lease.

The Massachusetts House Energy Committee is sending a bill to the full House that would jumpstart the renewable energies industries in the state. The bill calls for utilities to solicit longterm contracts of 15-20 years with providers of hydropower and offshore wind, allocating 1,200 megawatts of energy production to each resource...

The New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal will welcome its first cargo ship on Monday. The vessel Thorco Svenborg  is delivering wind turbine components for a land-based project in Plymouth. The Baker Administration has been critical of the $113-million, state-funded terminal project because offshore wind development has yet to pan out in Mass...

Earlier this week, the Mass. Clean Energy Center and Cape Wind mutually agreed to terminate a lease agreement at the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal. If the project ever got off the ground, Cape Wind would have used the terminal as a staging area before erecting the turbines off Nantucket Sound...

Cape Wind and the Mass. Clean Energy Center have mutually agreed to end their lease that would have allowed Cape Wind to use the Marine Commerce Terminal in New Bedford as a staging area for its offshore wind project. A spokesperson for the Clean Energy Center says the agreement was terminated because of Cape Wind's inability to complete its financing plans...

City officials say they're disappointed that financial issues have stalled the Cape Wind project, and its plan to use New Bedford as a staging area for its offshore wind turbines. But Mayor Jon Mitchell feels New Bedford is still very much in the picture for other wind projects in the Atlantic...

Officials have auctioned off more than 550 square miles of federal waters off the Massachusetts coast to two companies hoping to develop wind energy projects.

Two major utilities have terminated their contracts to buy power from the proposed wind farm in Nantucket Sound, saying project managers had missed a crucial deadline.