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Block Island Wind Farm

Operational30 MWChecked 6 October 2026

Technology
Offshore wind
Capacity
30 MW
Status
Operational
Operator
Deepwater Wind Block Island LLC
Location
Washington County, Rhode Island, United States
First operating
2016
Balancing authority
ISNE

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None found. The register holds no published incident that names Block Island Wind Farm. If you know of one, report it (confidential reports are anonymised).

The register holds 95 incidents at offshore wind farms in the United States, 32 of them fires, and 297 worldwide. Counts of incidents in published reporting, not rates.

What fails at offshore wind farms

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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M (Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory). The dataset. The register adds only the incidents and the counts.