America’s first utility-scale offshore wind farm is now delivering energy to the grid
Offshore wind power is officially flowing in the United States. New York’s South Fork Wind just switched on all 12 turbines about 35 miles off Montauk, sending roughly 130 megawatts to Long Island and the Rockaways — enough for around 70,000 homes and businesses. Hundreds of union workers across three Northeast ports built the farm, including the country’s first domestically built offshore wind substation, laying the groundwork for a supply chain that barely existed a decade ago. It’s a modest start by European standards, but it proves America can actually permit, finance, and complete a utility-scale offshore project — the kind of foundation every larger clean energy ambition has to be built on.
