Less than a decade ago, the offshore wind industry was a tantalizing dream in the Humber Region of England, a three-hour train ride north of London. Today, the region is the hub of a booming offshore wind sector that represents more than 7 billion pounds of investment, thousands of jobs and opportunity for hundreds of […]
Posted Apr 28, 2017 at 10:42 AM Updated Apr 30, 2017 at 7:43 AM As Massachusetts’ offshore wind industry begins ramping up, New Bedford is in position to become its nerve center. And that’s not just a parochial view of people in the city. “New Bedford is critical because of the investment in the Marine Commerce Terminal,” said Bill White, senior director of offshore wind […]
Posted Apr 28, 2017 at 7:07 AM Updated Apr 28, 2017 at 6:27 PMBy By Mike Lawrence NEW BEDFORD — Amid all of the challenges that could face offshore wind power along the East Coast — legal disputes from commercial fishing advocates, construction plans altered by whale migrations, President Donald Trump’s emphasis on revitalizing fossil fuels and more — some promising news for renewable industry supporters […]
Posted Apr 28, 2017 at 7:04 AM By Lauren Daley “Ten years from now, it would be wonderful if GE had a building right in the New Bedford Business Park. We’d love to provide them the students to fit that workforce.” — Anthony Ucci, associate vice president for Academic Affairs at Bristol Community College How does a college prepare workers […]
Posted Apr 28, 2017 at 7:01 AM By Ann Parson / Contributing writer What quick beast runs through a 9,000-mile-long tunnel at nearly the speed of light, is fed by 350 big hands, and in turn feeds approximately 14 million dependents in six states? Answer: the electricity that speeds through the high-voltage transmission lines of New England’s electric grid — […]
It took a century for the epicenter of the whaling industry to shift from Nantucket to New Bedford, and it took half a century for whaling to give way to textiles here. Things happen a lot faster now, thanks to technology, instant communications and global competition, and by the time this decade is over, the […]
New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell (above) welcomed Deepwater Wind’s opening of its Massachusetts headquarters in the former Standard-Times building downtown Friday, saying the city “wants to be the center of it all” as offshore wind matures into a new base industry for the Commonwealth. “We want the offshore wind industry to form a cluster here,” he […]
Deepwater Wind, the successful developer of the first US offshore wind farm, will officially open an office in New Bedford on Friday. The company is opening southeastern Massachusetts headquarters on the top floor of the historic Standard-Times building, 555 Pleasant St. Deepwater Wind’s Massachusetts vice president, Matthew Morrissey, said the company expects New Bedford — home to the […]
The selection of Deepwater Wind Vice President Matthew Morrissey and state Rep. Patricia Haddad, D-Somerset, as SouthCoast Man and Woman of the Year is recognition not only of the duo’s great work on offshore wind, but also of the collaborative and consistent approach needed to build the new industry. Morrissey and Haddad deserve great credit for […]
Events are happening so quickly as the new US offshore wind industry begins to take shape that it’s hard to keep up. It’s harder still to know what is happening here in New Bedford, which will be home port for much of the work as the industry builds out. Just what will happen here, when will it […]
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