Block Island Wind Farm switches to Offshore Wind Generation

The Block Island Wind Farm announced that its search for an alternative to diesel generation has come to an end and it has deactivated its diesel generators used for production. They began generating electricity from first five offshore turbines.

The facility has been supplying electricity to its 2,000 customers on the Island with electricity generated from Offshore Wind turbines.

Block Island Power Co. chief executive, Jeff Wright said that With annual power costs projected to decline $500,000 to $700,000 for the utility, Block Island residents will see a level of savings on their bills — for the first year, at least. A supply charge will drop to 12.44 cents from a current 17 cents. After a year, new capacity charges will bring the cost of power to around where it was in the early part of this year for power from the local plants. The supply charge has been 30 cents or more when fuel costs have skyrocketed. he further added that they are able to build some stability into customers’ electric bill and they will do their best to keep their load down.

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