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February 24, 2012 Deepwater Wind Statement on BOEM’s Announcement of Wind Energy Area for Rhode Island and Massachusetts October 20, 2011 Deepwater Wind Signs Agreement with Siemens to Buy World's Most Advanced Offshore Wind Turbine October 7, 2011 Deepwater Wind Submits Plan for Nation's First Regional Offshore Wind Farm to Supply Multiple East Coast States September 22, 2011 Block Island Wind Farm Project Advances with Cutting-Edge Marine Surveys, Expanded Team September 15, 2011 Deepwater Wind to Propose Offshore Wind Farm and Inter-State Transmission System to New York Power Authority August 17, 2011 Deepwater Wind Heralds Announcement of Federal Call for Information for Rhode Island Offshore Wind Development July 1, 2011 RI Supreme Court Upholds Block Island Wind Farm Power Contract

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May 7, 2012 William Moore: National Ocean Policy Makes Smart Business Sense January 4, 2012 US eyeing Euro offshore wind, Long Island still on the fence October 12, 2011 Deepwater to Build First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm October 7, 2011 RI Firm Submits Offshore Wind Farm Proposal October 3, 2011 Poll Shows Majority of Islanders Support Offshore Wind February 10, 2011 Developer Considers Building 1,000-Megawatt Offshore Wind Farm February 7, 2011 Deepwater Wind Statement on U.S. Department of the Interior and Department of Energy’s “A National Offshore Wind Strategy: Creating an Offshore Wind Industry in the United States” News Archive »

Quonset awarded $22 million for projects

NORTH KINGSTOWN — The Quonset Business Park has been awarded $22.3 million in federal stimulus funds to improve piers, roads and rails and to install a crane in preparation for offshore wind development, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Wednesday.

The money from the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program will also go toward positioning the state-owned industrial park on the Davisville waterfront as a short-sea shipping port that could accommodate shallow-draft barges loaded with containers from larger ports on the East Coast.

The Quonset Development Corporation, the quasi-state agency that operates the 3,160-acre industrial park, was the only winner in Rhode Island in the highly competitive race for TIGER funds. Applications were also submitted for a project at the Port of Providence and to replace the bridge on Route 95 known as the Providence Viaduct, but neither was approved.

In all, the Department of Transportation received 1,400 applications for grants from the $1.5-billion funding pool that was approved as part of last year’s American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. Only 51 were selected. They include a project to improve a rail link to the New Bedford waterfront. Read more…

Quonset awarded $22 million for projects - projo.com.pdf [102.67KB]

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