Vineyard Wind has withdrawn its construction and operation plans from the federal permitting process, suddenly throwing the future into limbo for the consortium.
Vineyard Wind, the international consortium that plans to build the nation’s largest offshore wind farm 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard, has been hit with yet another delay.
Prolonged permitting delays by the Trump administration have thrown Vineyard Wind’s $2.8 billion wind farm south of Martha’s Vineyard further into flux.
While Vineyard Wind's plan to build the nation's first industrial-scale offshore wind farm south of the Vineyard remains mired in red tape at the federal level, at the state level the project continues to win approvals.
A 2020 construction start date for the first phase of Vineyard Wind’s project is in jeopardy after a federal agency said it would indefinitely delay the release of an EIS.
Construction on Vineyard Wind, a massive plan to build 84 wind turbines 14 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard, is slated to begin by Jan. 1, but regulatory snags on two different fronts have created a race against the clock for what would be the nation’s first industrial scale offshore wind project.
Developers who plan to build the nation’s first industrial-scale offshore wind farm south of Martha’s Vineyard saw their first major setback this week.