July 18, 2024 — There was a historic groundbreaking Wednesday for New York’s next offshore wind farm, which will be seven times bigger than the first one.
Years in the making, winds of change are coming to the state’s energy grid. Months after South Fork Wind went live, the far bigger Sunrise Wind will have 84 turbines to generate 924 megawatts, making it the largest wind farm in the nation.
Ocean winds will be supplying the project’s clean energy by 2026.
“Six hundred thousand homes. That is the metric and that is a true game changer for Long Island,” said Doreen Harris, president of the New York State Research and Development Authority.