One Square Mile: New Bedford’s Gamble On Offshore Wind Energy

“It’s windy, windy, windy just off our coast,” Paul Vigeant, managing director at the New Bedford Wind Energy Center, said. “It’s a unique physical property of the earth that every day, every night the gulf stream and the ocean collides with the Northern jet stream in the atmosphere and it creates this dynamic, sustainable, renewable energy source.”

Vigeant added, a couple hundred miles off of New Bedford’s coast, the water isn’t as deep compared to other parts of the country. That makes it a lot easier to install and maintain offshore wind turbines to harness all that wind.