Plymouth 8 Megawatt Wind Farm July 26 2015

• New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal lands first customer Ship carrying turbine components for Plymouth wind farm to use $113 million facility, expected to arrive Monday

Credit New Bedford Standard Times 
By Mike Lawrence
mlawrence@s-t.com
Posted Jun. 30, 2015 at 5:38 PM

NEW BEDFORD — The much-debated Marine Commerce Terminal on the city’s southern shore could see its first customer next week, when a ship carrying turbine equipment for a small wind power project in Plymouth uses the $113 million facility, city leaders, state energy officials and owners of the project confirmed Tuesday.

“The first boat coming in to use the terminal is coming on Monday,” said Catherine Williams, spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, the state agency that manages the terminal. “We’re excited that this first customer is in the clean energy sector. It’s a milestone for the community, for the facility, for the city and for the state.”

Mayor Jon Mitchell also confirmed the terminal’s use Tuesday morning, when he said turbine equipment soon would be offloaded at the 28-acre facility.

Details about the ship’s arrival were not yet finalized Tuesday. A spokeswoman for ConEdison Solutions, the owner of the four-turbine project on a Plymouth farm, said the energy services company would comment when project plans were set.

The state-invested terminal has taken its share of lumps this year.

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