Last Thursday, workers using a boat-mounted crane secured the final 240-foot blade onto a massive wind turbine, anchored to the ocean floor beneath Long Island Sound. With this act the turbine, and four others like it, were completed off the coast of a small island in the sound, known to locals as a tourist destination.
Together, the five turbines at the Block Island Wind Farm have a capacity of 30 MW, and when they begin spinning in roughly two months’ time are expected to supply enough power to meet the island’s electricity needs nine times over.
