The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the three largest utilities in the state have agreed to purchase from Mayflower Wind, based in Fall River, 400 megawatts (MW) of power from its offshore wind energy project.
This deal is part of the 83C III offshore wind energy procurement of the state and will be able to provide over 1200MW of clean energy to customers of electricity throughout Massachusetts and New England.
CEO of Mayflower Wind, Michael Brown, said that his company is looking forward to delivering renewable energy at a low cost to the businesses and residents of Massachusetts. He added that the company is also committed to contributing to the workforce and economic developments in the community. It would be expected that many new jobs will be created as a result of such projects with some requiring business card printing services.
Mayflower Wind is planning to build wind turbines out in the Atlantic Ocean in waters owned by the federal government. When the project becomes operational sometime this decade, the company will initially produce enough electricity to provide power to close to half a million homes every year. When it is fully built out, the project is expected to eliminate four million metric tons of greenhouse gases on an annual basis.
As part of the project, the company will be creating two interconnection points, on in Somerset at Brayton Point and the other in Falmouth.
