Source: AGRI-PULSE, 11/1/16

Twenty-five years behind Europe, the U.S. launched its first offshore wind farm last week, thanks partly to the downturn in the oil industry. Using massive steel platforms and expertise imported from the oil fields offshore of Louisiana and Texas, the five-turbine, 30-megawatt Block Island Wind Farm built by Deepwater Wind off the Rhode Island coast is generating enough electricity to power 17,000 homes.

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