<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2vwEQU_1GqDrxKx00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2vwEQU_1GqDrxKx00" width="800" height="533" ><figcaption>Work on blades at Vineyard Wind 1 in July 2025. —Jennette Barnes CAI</figcaption></figure>Vineyard Wind 1 has reached full commercial operations, a final milestone in a years-long project that’s experienced multiple setbacks along the way.“On Thursday, October 29, Vineyard Wind 1 reached full commercial operations, further strengthening New England’s energy supply,” Craig Gilvarg, a Vineyard Wind spokesperson, said in a statement.A wind farm reaches full commercial operations when every turbine is commissioned, or tested, and is fully online. That means that every turbine should spin, except when taken offline for maintenance.The project, first selected by Massachusetts in 2018, has experienced rough seas for almost a decade — from a blade that broke off one turbine located at the southernmost tip of the lease area and littered debris on the Cape and Islands to a stop-work order by the current federal administration that paused work for a month. A contractor even threatened to walk out on the project. The project, 15 miles south of the Vineyard, didn’t finish construction on the 62 turbines until March, years after completion was projected.Announcement of the project’s milestone comes as Revolution Wind, another turbine off the coast of the Island, also reached commercial operations. Typically when a project reaches full commercial operations, the electricity starts to be sold at a fixed price on the regional open energy market, based on power purchase agreements between the energy producer and buyer like a utility company.The 20-year contracts between Vineyard Wind and state utilities, National Grid USA, Eversource Energy, and Unitil Corp., however, were activated in April and any energy produced from commissioned turbines was sold since then at a fixed price average of $69.50 per megawatt-hour. (One megawatt can serve about 750 to 1,000 homes in New England; a megawatt-hour can serve 1,000 homes for one hour.)</div></body>

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Vineyard Wind 1 has reached full commercial operations, a final milestone in a years-long project that’s experienced multiple setbacks along the way. “On Thursday, October 29, Vineyard Wind 1 reached full commercial operations, further strengthening New England’s energy supply,” Craig Gilvarg, a Vineyard Wind spokesperson, said in a statement.

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