Familiar Claims About Offshore Wind Aired at Portsmouth Forum on SouthCoast Wind Cable Project

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. — While polling shows they have wide public support, southern New England’s offshore wind projects continue to be dogged by vocal opposition — and at times, misinformation — from a minority of local residents and property owners, as evidenced by a public forum Wednesday evening.

The project itself, and the substation where the electricity generated by the turbines will connect into the grid, is outside Rhode Island’s lands and waters. The turbines will sit in a lease area in federal waters, and the substation sits at Brayton Point in Somerset, Mass.

Other groups supporting the project include the Green Energy Consumers Alliance, the Rhode Island office of the Acadia Center, the Conservation Law Foundation, Climate Action Rhode Island, and 24 state representatives and 11 state senators.

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