BendiNewsTest: Deepwater Wind breaks ground on the U.S.’s first offshore wind farm (finally)

While offshore wind farms have been operational in Europe since the 1990s, efforts to establish any such projects off the U.S. coast have stalled amid funding and environmental concerns. And so, some eight years after it was proposed, Deepwater Wind, located 30 miles off the coast of Rhode Island—is set to become the first offshore wind farm in the U.S. Work on laying the foundations for the project began today, and the 30-megawatt wind farm is expected to be up and running next year.

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