Vineyard Wind

After a long-awaited ship carrying turbine components for the country's first commercial-scale offshore wind farm arrived in New Bedford this week, officials celebrated — but now, some city union workers are picketing.

The New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal became the landing site this week for the first parts of a massive turbine for the Vineyard Wind offshore wind development.

Vineyard Wind hosted a tour on Monday at the Marine Commerce Terminal in New Bedford to show the early construction of the Vineyard Wind 1 Project.

Vineyard Wind and the U.S Offshore Wind Business Network are sponsoring a free, three-day training for local business owners in New Bedford.

More than 500 people packed in to the Andrea McCoy Recreation Center in New Bedford on Thursday for a job fair held by Vineyard Wind.

The country's first commercial-scale offshore wind farm project has started laying cable offshore from its New Bedford operations base — even as two other large-scale wind projects in the state have pressed pause.

Gov. Charlie Baker and some of his top deputies joined lawmakers from southeastern Massachusetts and officials from Vineyard Wind's parent company Avangrid to celebrate plans to establish the state's first offshore wind industry manufacturing facility at Brayton Point in Somerset.

Final contracts with Vineyard Wind and Mayflower Wind are supposed to be submitted for Department of Public Utilities approval by April 27, 2022.

The North Atlantic right whale population has shrunk by 30 percent over the last decade, the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium announced Monday.

Two developers vying for the state's third offshore wind farm are each promising economic investment — Mayflower Wind in Fall River and now Vineyard Wind in Salem.