Huge Turbines Will Soon Bring First Offshore Wind Power to New Yorkers
New York’s best bet for entering the era of offshore wind power is stacked up at the water’s edge in Connecticut.
New York Times
Nov. 27, 2023
By Patrick McGeehan
The giant parts for wind turbines await pickup at a pier in New London, Conn. (Credit...Joe Buglewicz for The New York Times)
"The pier on the Connecticut coast is filled with so many massive oddities that it could be mistaken for the set of a sci-fi movie. Sword-shaped blades as long as a football field lie stacked along one edge, while towering yellow and green cranes hoist giant steel cylinders to stand like rockets on a launchpad.
It is a launching point, not for spacecraft, but for the first wind turbines being built to turn ocean wind into electricity for New Yorkers. Crews of union workers in New London, Conn., are preparing parts of 12 of the gargantuan fans before shipping them out for final assembly 15 miles offshore.
“They’re sort of space-stationesque,” said Christine Cohen, a Democratic state senator who toured the assembly site last week. “Seeing the components up close, it’s just breathtaking how immense they are..."
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