As previously reported in The Block Island Times, National Grid has pulled out, packed up, and headed home for the winter. And when they come back in the March, this time things might be different.
The company has been working on reburying its sea2shore cable for quite some time, as the original cable that carries electricity from the substation on Block Island to the mainland had become exposed. Orsted, whose cable brings electricity from the wind farm to the substation on Block Island and was also exposed, completed their reburying project last spring.National Grid ran into trouble in the spring when the conduit that had been buried under the ocean floor became clogged somehow, before the contractor was able tofeed the cable through the conduit. There has been general concern on the island that the team from National Grid might be in over their heads, as the project was abandoned in the spring due to the coming tourist season, then picked up again in the fall, and now abandoned again for the winter. National Grid was on the Zoom call with the Town Council on December 6 to give an update on the status of the project, and
