All-around great news, on the anniversary of the stimulus bill’s passage:
The Department of Transportation awarded more than $22 million today to a proposed offshore wind manufacturing and port facility in Rhode Island.
The Quonset Development Corporation has been touted by Rhode Island officials — including Gov. Don Carcieri — as a crucial building block for offshore wind development in New England. The facility has a deep port and two existing piers. The lack of suitable port facilities is often cited by experts as a significant hurdle to the industry.
Unfortunately, there’s minimal coordination between the state’s various ports — so Providence and Quonset were competing against each other for ARRA funding. Does anybody know what this means for the Providence application?