During a quarterly investor call this week, executives with the project’s parent company said that 23 turbines have been fully built at the farm about 14 miles out to sea, and 17 are sending energy to the grid. 

The town of Nantucket this week scored a multi-million dollar settlement agreement to compensate the town and businesses that were affected by the broken Vineyard Wind turbine blade that spread fiberglass and foam across the island’s south shore beaches last summer. 

While the Vineyard Wind blade failure was an initial black eye for the industry as it was attempting to get started, offshore wind energy finds itself in an even more vulnerable position one year later.

Last Monday, the court announced it would not take up the appeal filed by the Responsible Offshore Development Alliance, keeping a previous ruling on the 62-turbine Vineyard Wind project intact.

The Responsible Offshore Development Alliance (RODA) and the Texas Public Policy Foundation have both filed petitions with the country’s highest court, arguing that the Department of Interior did not follow the law when approving the project. 

On Sunday, officials confirmed that the turbine at the southernmost end of the Vineyard Wind lease off Martha’s Vineyard was apparently hit by lightning late last week, damaging the already broken blade.