A few miles off the coast of Block Island, R.I., a new U.S. industry is emerging from the Atlantic Ocean.
That’s where Deepwater Wind LLC is installing a massive steel frame platform, weighing more than 1,500 tons, that sits on the seabed and juts about 70 feet into the air from the water south of Rhode Island. By the end of 2016, there will be five of these platforms, each supporting a huge turbine, the first offshore wind farm in U.S. waters.
It’s been a long time coming. Offshore turbines have been running in Europe for more than two decades, ...
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