Engineers and construction crews completed construction at a dozen-turbine wind farm about 35 miles off Montauk, marking the first utility-scale wind farm in U.S. federal waters.

The project, South Fork Wind, aims to generate enough energy to power some 70,000 Long Island homes, which itself is part of broader state strategy to create enough renewable energy by 2030 to power 450,000 homes in New York.

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