We’re two months out from the last update I gave you on the Vineyard Wind project, the wind farm just off the Nantucket coast, home to the infamous fettuccine split blade that nearly ruined summer along the New England beaches, and now embroiled in litigation between its two major players, the Vineyard Wind developers, and GE Vernova, the turbine and blade manufacturer who is trying to walk away from the project.
They don’t want to play anymore. Costs too much money and takes too much time.
The difficulty arises when one accepts the fact that the developers can’t do a thing without the technical guys (as coders learn when they need a plumber), hence the litigation.
Massachusetts governor Maura Healey had crowed when the last turbine was ready to rock offshore about her state having the first ‘commercial-scale’ set-up, but she has proven to be a tad premature, as most climate cultists – and Healey is a fervent believer – tend to be. They’ll break the champagne open before checking to see if anything breaks when their expensive pet projects are turned on.
This has been the case with the much-ballyhooed and equally reviled Vineyard Wind.
It’s not remotely living up to the hype. This is going to be a problem.
Let me add, ‘Oh, what a surprise!’
…Still, Vineyard Wind’s future is murky. Its turbines produce less than half the energy promised. The project’s developer is embroiled in a bitter legal battle that company executives say threatens to turn Vineyard Wind’s 62 turbines into a “dormant wind farm graveyard.”
Awkward.
Recurring theme:
Vineyard Wind CEO “said the project’s current average output is roughly 300 megawatts (out of 800 MW promised), and 13 of the 62 turbines are not yet activated.”
https://t.co/2ArmHNLciF – @washtimes
— Patrick McIlheran (@PaddyMacMke) July 6, 2026
This is where the technical guys come in handy – there are multiple gremlins in the system, which is why the developers are suing in order to force GE Vernova to stay and fix their crappy, glitchy product.
…Significant remedial and repair work is needed to address “recurrent operational issues,” Vineyard Wind officials said in court documents.
The problems include sensors that repeatedly trip, causing the turbines to shut off and curtailing their performance and power generation.
Threatened with being left in the lurch, Vineyard Wind is suing to prevent turbine supplier and installer GE Vernova from walking away from the project and maintenance contract, which Vineyard Wind officials said would make it impossible to finish work on the turbines and maintain them to the standards needed to produce electricity.
In classic cultist circuitous reasoning, Healey explains why super-expensive, unreliable renewables that do not provide electricity are the key to the state’s future affordable electricity.
…In Massachusetts, wind turbines provide just a fraction of the state’s electricity. The state gets most of its power from natural gas and nuclear power plants. Residents pay more for electricity than in most other states, partly because Massachusetts has blocked pipeline construction and must import liquefied natural gas, which is expensive and subject to volatile market prices. The state also charges residents extra on their utility bills to fund aggressive green energy policies.
“Massachusetts needs affordable and reliable energy. That means recognizing the role of natural gas and nuclear power in keeping costs down and providing dependable, around-the-clock electricity,” Mr. Gangi said.
Ms. Healey said building wind, solar and other renewables expands the grid’s capacity, preventing blackouts and lowering costs. She said the new rate locked in for Vineyard Wind’s electricity will save consumers a projected $1.4 billion over the next two decades.
Does your head hurt yet? It should.
Why did Donald Trump do this to Massachusetts?
…“Especially as President Trump is taking energy sources off the table and increasing prices with his war in Iran, we should be leaning into more American-made wind power to lower costs, create jobs, and make our country more energy independent,” she said.
Donald Trump didn’t sabotage your offshore windmills, which have been falling apart from the very beginning.
I’M TIRED OF HIGH GAS AND ELECTRIC BILLS, RIGHT? WE’RE PAYIN’ TOO MUCH, AREN’T WE?
Maura Healey went down to New Bedford yesterday and said she was tired of Massachusetts’ dependence on foreign energy sources. So why is she doubling down on foreign owned Vineyard Wind, and why did she kill two American gas pipelines? pic.twitter.com/bpErAlWOGU
— Brian Shortsleeve for Massachusetts (@ShortsleeveMA) June 25, 2026
Never the twain shall meet between the argle-bargle that comes out of their mouths and reality.
Take California… please!
But seriously. In February two years ago, I told you about a half-assed idea that wind supporters had come up with for the waters of Morro Bay and just offshore. The idea was to put these tremendous towers offshore, tethered to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in an area legendary for its extraordinary natural riches and marine life, while using the pristine harbors of Morro Bay and the nearby coast for development operations.
YEAH
…Daggum sounds familiar.
Two of President Joe Biden’s biggest priorities — conservation and the switch to clean energy — are colliding in the ocean off California’s quiet Central Coast.
Located halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, Morro Bay boasts a rich ecosystem of fish, otters and migrating whales that the Indigenous Chumash people want to protect with a new marine sanctuary. But 20 miles (32 kilometers) out, developers plan some of the West Coast’s first offshore wind farms, where 1,100-foot-tall turbines (335 meters) tethered to the seabed will help California cut its carbon emissions.
There were some early supporters, but it didn’t take long for natives – literally, Native Americans – and locals alike to lose their minds over the proposal.
At the time, I figured with all the Indian uproar assistance, it would have died a natural death, and ho, boy was I wrong.
The state of California is suing the Trump administration to charge ahead with destroying in the name of whatever it is they have in mind because the Morro Project is one of the ones that have agreed to a Trump wind developer buy-out of their lease.
The State of California is threatening to sue the Trump Administration after it approved a second settlement with a wind energy lease holder that effectively terminated their leases for offshore wind farm sites off the Central Coast.
In a news release dated June 23, the California Energy Commission (CEC) and the Attorney General’s Office announced they had issued “Notices of Intent to Sue” to the Department of the Interior along with subpoenas on how the Department of the Interior reached settlements with Golden State Wind and Invenergy, two of the three companies that secured leases for the proposed 6-gigawatt floating offshore wind energy project.
That project site sits some 22 miles off the coast of San Simeon and 57 miles north of Morro Bay. Its official name is the “Morro Bay Wind Area.”
The statement reads, “California Attorney General Rob Bonta and California Energy Commission Chair David Hochschild today sent a Notice of Intent to Sue targeting an unlawful agreement between the U.S. Department of Interior and Golden State Wind, LLC (GSW) that puts at risk California’s clean energy gains, thousands of high-quality jobs, and more than $100 million in public investments in the offshore wind industry, including voter-approved climate funds.”
The Trump wind buy-out program puts at risk ‘California’s clean energy gains.‘ Are you hearing that, California?
So many gains, so little time – that’s why you all are in such great shape right now.
Local fisherman already have a lawsuit against the state filed.
…Of note, commercial fishing organizations in Morro Bay and Port San Luis filed a lawsuit in Superior Court against the wind farm projects.
And site surveys of the Morro Bay area haven’t worked out the way the developer anticipated.
…The hullabaloo comes weeks after a study commissioned by SLO County looking into the suitability of Morro Bay for a wind energy port, determined the cost to rebuild harbor facilities to accommodate the smallest of the working vessels the projects will need could top $130 million.
Morro Bay Harbor can’t accommodate the mid-sized work boats that will do most of the maintenance work on the wind turbines without a huge investment. And there’s no way it could be made to accommodate the biggest of the ships needed.
Morro Bay was only potentially suitable to accommodate the relatively small crew boats needed.
Neither Morro Bay nor Port San Luis could be used as a deepwater port and manufacturing site for the turbines. Long Beach has been actively seeking to become that port.
The information subpoenas are “seeking documents and information related to the company’s buyout deal with DOI.”
It will irrevocably change the character of the area.
But the state is talking smack as if they had this thing up and ready, and that darn Trump administration ruined the party.
…Senior Information Officer, Stacey Shepard, responded and said they did not have any information on other deals with the DOI and referred us to that agency.
She reiterated what CEC Chair Hochschild said in the news release: “California strongly condemns yet another reckless Trump Administration misuse of taxpayer dollars that undermines clean energy growth and U.S. energy security.
“California will continue to lead the way toward a cleaner, more reliable grid powered by domestic resources. Offshore wind remains an essential component of that work.”
California has zero offshore wind farms. Zilch. Not one. None.
This is what they want, though. Their green dream list, as it were. It will all work perfectly because it’s in a cool handout for gullible morons.
• A single rotation of the blades on an offshore turbine can power a home for a day.
• The blades on each turbine can rotate 10 to 15 times per minute.
• To achieve 25 gigawatts of offshore wind will require more than 1,600 floating offshore wind turbines to be built off California’s coast.
• The turbines will be as tall as the Eiffel Tower but when located 20 to 60 miles off the coast they are not expected to be highly visible from shore.
California also already has zero energy security through its own radical policies – those predate Trump and continue apace as if to spite him.
When in fact, it’s just making it intolerable and dangerous for California citizens.
So, from sea to shining sea, unicorn fart madness is still alive and well in some sad, proggy places.
And in others, who wish they could have more windmills and keep closing their gas and nuclear plants to prove they can, instead of acting responsibly for their residents, it’s going to be a long, hot, expensive summer.
…Triple-digit heat in some of North America’s largest population centers strained electricity supplies, prompting the biggest US grid operator to declare a level 2 alert that’s one notch shy of forced power outages.
PJM Interconnection LLC’s Dominion region, which includes Northern Virginia’s data-center alley, saw real-time electricity prices exceed $2,500 per megawatt-hour as temperatures climbed Thursday.
New York’s Central Park reached 100F (38C) just before 2 p.m. local time, according to preliminary data. If confirmed, it would tie a 60-year-old record.
Consolidated Edison Inc. temporarily cut power to some customers in the Riverdale neighborhood in the Bronx and asked more than 200,000 homes and businesses across a broader area, including northern Queens and Staten Island, to curb electricity use while the company deals with equipment repairs. It extended energy conservation requests to a further 148,200 customers, in areas of Brooklyn and Queens, and to 80,000 customers in the Bronx, late Thursday night.
All the moaning and groaning in the world won’t change the fact that Trump had nothing to do with it.
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