Press Releases

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

Deepwater Wind in the News

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 »

The company behind Deepwater Wind

A recurring question that has dogged the proposed Block Island wind farm is: where did Deepwater Wind come from?

Deepwater’s origins stretch back to 2005, when Bryan Martin and David Hang, then with the financial giant JP Morgan, purchased a small wind company called Winergy, which at the time was developing a small offshore wind installation off of Plum Island.

When Martin and Hang made the move to the investment firm the D. E. Shaw group in 2005 and 2007, respectively, they led the purchase of Winergy.

Martin is now a managing director at the D. E. Shaw group, and Hang is a senior vice president; as of April, the firm had $22 billion in investment and committed capital.

In April 2008, Winergy became Deepwater Wind. Read more…

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