Cape Wind signs South Terminal lease for 130-turbine offshore wind project

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Cape Wind signs South Terminal lease for 130-turbine offshore wind project

NEW BEDFORD — Cape Wind has signed a lease agreement with the state to use South Terminal for the staging and construction of its 130-turbine offshore wind project, marking a significant milestone in the city’s efforts to become a hub for the offshore wind industry.

The offshore wind developer is expected to officially announce the news at 11 a.m. today with Gov. Deval Patrick at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center’s Wind Technology Testing Center in Charlestown.

“Cape Wind is going to be built out of New Bedford, not Rhode Island, that’s the bottom line,” Patrick told The Standard-Times on Thursday night.

Cape Wind will file paperwork with the federal government early next week to modify its Construction and Operations Plan with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to deploy the wind project from New Bedford, company officials said.