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Vineyard Wind signs $9m lease with New Bedford facility

CommonWealth Magazine|Bruce Mohl|October 22, 2018
MassachusettsOffshore Wind

The terms of the lease were set in September 2016, when all three companies vying for state offshore wind contracts committed to use the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal under the same terms if they were selected. 


State-owned terminal, completed in Jan. 2015, to rev up in Dec. 2020

The state's staging terminal for offshore wind development got its first major customer on Monday, nearly four years after it opened for business in New Bedford.

Vineyard Wind, with power contracts in hand to build an 800-megawatt wind farm off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, signed an 18-month lease that starts December 1, 2020. The lease amount is $6 million a year, so the total comes to $9 million unless the lease is extended.

The terms of the lease were set in September 2016, when all three companies vying for state offshore wind contracts committed to use the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal under the same terms if they were selected. The large turbines …

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State-owned terminal, completed in Jan. 2015, to rev up in Dec. 2020

The state's staging terminal for offshore wind development got its first major customer on Monday, nearly four years after it opened for business in New Bedford.

Vineyard Wind, with power contracts in hand to build an 800-megawatt wind farm off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, signed an 18-month lease that starts December 1, 2020. The lease amount is $6 million a year, so the total comes to $9 million unless the lease is extended.

The terms of the lease were set in September 2016, when all three companies vying for state offshore wind contracts committed to use the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal under the same terms if they were selected. The large turbines needed for the project will be assembled at the facility and then transported to the wind farm off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard.


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