Few states in the country have as much to gain from the emergence of offshore wind as Virginia.
Read MoreWhen change for the better is coming, wouldn’t you rather be on the leading edge than lagging behind, trying in vain to stop progress? Isn’t it smarter to help shape the change and benefit from it, rather than to cling to ways of doing things that are no longer working?
Read MoreAn offshore wind developer has upped its public presence to take on concerns about its proposed project 27 miles off the Outer Banks.
Read MoreThe growing offshore wind industry in Hampton Roads caught another gust Wednesday with the opening of a coworking and networking space in Norfolk's World Trade Center.
Read MoreAn economic study by alternative energy developer Avangrid Renewables calculated the project would add $2 billion to the region’s economy over the next 10 years.
Read MoreRenewable energy company, Avangrid Renewables, is moving ahead with the Kitty Hawk Offshore Wind project.
Read MoreAvangrid Renewables, the developer of the Kitty Hawk offshore wind project, has opened a new Virginia field office to support project development and help ignite a new industry off the coast of Virginia and North Carolina.
Read MoreLiDAR technology provides real-time meteorological data to support project development
Read MoreLiterally just over the horizon, offshore wind development is beginning off Virginia’s coast.
Read MoreAvangrid Renewables Kitty Hawk Offshore Wind project, proposed to be more than 27 miles off the coast of Corolla, will bring hundreds of construction jobs as well as permanent jobs following construction. But why the Outer Banks? As it turns out, our area of the North Carolina coast produces faster and steadier winds, more so than anywhere else on the east coast.
Read MoreThe Kitty Hawk Offshore Wind project plans to install its first visible piece of equipment off the Outer Banks — a buoy that can measure the winds nearly 800 feet above the surface.
Read MoreGeophysical surveys are nearly complete at the Kitty Hawk offshore wind project — and the enterprise just moved another step forward with approval from Virginia Beach for land to build a substation.
Read MoreThe possibility of a wind farm off the Carolina outer banks is closer to being a reality as the company behind the first leased tract has taken a big step forward.
Read MoreAvangrid Renewables plans to conduct surveys of the ocean bottom this summer and fall in preparation to building a wind farm offshore from Corolla.
Read MoreAvingrid Renewables through Oct. 15 will be conducting high-resolution geophysical survey work at the Kitty Hawk offshore wind area.
Read MoreFederal officials say North Carolina will benefit from a new partnership that brings together local and regional fishing interests with federal regulators to collaborate on the science and process of offshore wind energy development.
Read MoreThe federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM, has finalized a lease with Avangrid Renewables, the Portland, Oregon-based company behind the Amazon Wind Farm project in Perquimans and Pasquotank counties, for a 122,405-acre wind area off the coast of North Carolina.
Read MoreAvangrid Renewables won the bid Thursday to lease 122,405 acres off the Outer Banks coast for a wind farm.
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