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Connecticut Picks Offshore-Wind Winner in Bid to Go Carbon-Free
- Developer Vineyard Wind to spend $890 million locally
- Project in Atlantic is part of push to fight climate change
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Connecticut agreed to buy power from a huge wind farm planned in the Atlantic Ocean by a joint venture of Avangrid Inc. and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.
The venture, Vineyard Wind, will provide the state with 804 megawatts, or about 14% of its power needs. It’s part of Governor Ned Lamont’s push to get to 100% of the state’s electricity from carbon-free sources by 2040, Connecticut officials said in a statement Thursday. The project is forecast to come online in 2025.