New London State Pier

The entire project, which was built to facilitate offshore wind construction equipment, was originally expected to cost $90 million. It’s now above $300 million.

In Connecticut, the New Haven Port and the New London Pier have been selected to receive nearly $40 million from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to help reduce greenhouse emissions.

New leadership is coming to the Connecticut Port Authority. Ulysses Hammond, interim executive director since 2022, will retire this Friday. David Kooris, chairman since 2019, is stepping down to start a new job with the state.

The Connecticut Port Authority violated the state’s Freedom of Information Act when it withheld records from a WSHU reporter about the final cost of its State Pier project in New London.

The Connecticut Port Authority is discussing a potential $6 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. The money would go toward buying and using shoreside electricity for ships docked at New London’s State Pier.

A federal lawsuit has been filed against the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and three other federal agencies for an offshore wind project that is set to power homes in Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Connecticut lawmakers and officials celebrated new tax incentives for offshore wind development at the New London State Pier. U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said new subsidies will make a difference.

The New London State Pier is currently being used to build wind turbines for New York’s South Fork Wind project. Its final construction cost the state and taxpayers over $300 million.

Orsted said they would invoke part of a harbor development agreement to handle the time-sensitive loadout of the wind turbine parts for their South Fork Wind project in New York. Their turbine supplier will handle the loadout until State Pier union members return to work in New London.

Members of the International Longshoremen Association began their strike at the State Pier in New London, Connecticut on Monday. The union says Orsted is ignoring their jurisdiction by giving jobs to their own workers.