Deepwater Wind’s proposal to build the first offshore wind farm in the United States inched closer to reality this week when the Providence company’s five-turbine project planned off Block Island received a key permit from the lead federal regulatory agency. The approval on Thursday from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers follows last May’s approval from the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council, the state’s lead permitting agency for the project, and means that the…
Sheryl GuglielmoSeptember 8, 2014