This summer, at the height of the island’s all-important tourist season, five enormous steel jacket foundations will arrive on barges from the Gulf of Mexico and be piled into the seabed three miles (5km) from the lighthouse’s perch.
Over the next year, in perfectly timed bursts of activity, the Block Island project will be constructed, and by autumn 2016, electricity generated at an offshore wind farm will make landfall on US soil for the first time.
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