How Giant Wind Turbines Are Installed and the Effect on the Atlantic Ocean

They are as tall as the Chrysler Building, built on foundations big enough to hold a pickleball court, and surrounded by football field-sized piles of rocks.

At the South Fork Wind Farm off Block Island, Rhode Island, a 313-foot blade is installed for the first completed wind turbine on Nov. 20, 2023. Courtesy of South Fork Wind

The industrialization of the Atlantic Ocean is underway. South Fork Wind, America’s first utility-scale offshore wind farm, has begun delivering power to Long Island, New York.

“First power has started flowing to the grid,” Ryan Ferguson, Orsted’s head of corporate communications for the Americas, told The Epoch Times via email.