Empire Wind project employs visual observers, acoustic monitoring, and noise reduction techniques to minimize impact on ...

Work on Empire Wind, the wind farm being built 15 to 30 miles south of the coast of Long Island, can resume now that the Federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has lifted a stop-work order ...

New Yorkers would be forced to pay 2.5 times the market rate for electricity generated by the Empire Wind One offshore wind farm if the deal goes through, according to a financial analysis.. The ...

Empire Wind 1 was the only thing left of its grand offshore wind ambitions in the U.S. Even then, the $5 billion project represented a massive step forward for America’s struggling offshore wind ...

Equinor has said it may pull the plug on Empire Wind, the $7 billion-plus offshore wind farm planned off Long Island’s South Shore after the Trump administration issued a stop-work order for the ...

Empire Wind 1, operated by Norwegian energy company Equinor, broke ground in May 2024 on its operations and maintenance hub at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal in Sunset Park. The development has so ...

Empire Wind would have been the first of many zaps for New York ratepayers. The state wants 9,000 megawatts of offshore wind within a decade, more than ten times what Empire Wind was set to produce.

Trump’s war on wind takes big leap, halts a major project mid-construction. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum halted work on the Empire Wind project, which was fully permitted and under construction.

Empire Wind is bankrolled by US tax credits but operated by Equinor, a foreign state-owned oil company. We bear the cost; Norway reaps the rewards. Empire Wind is not about progress.

What to know about Empire Wind. Norwegian energy company Equinor spent seven years obtaining permits to build Empire Wind, a project slated to power more than 500,000 homes in New York by 2026.