alleged shadow flicker health issues. The neighbors describe the noise as torture. The Town of Falmouth in November 2019 approved 2.5 million to disassemble and store the wind turbines. The turbines were designed in the late 1990s and have the original gearboxes and blades. Offshore wind At about 450 MW, the offshore wind farm Cape Wind was the largest wind project under review in the state. It would have provided enough electricity to power nearly 420,000 homes using 130 wind turbines, but was cancelled in 2017 after local opposition. On August 8, 2016 the Massachusetts governor signed Bill H.4568 which mandates that Massachusetts utilities obtain 1.6 GW of offshore wind power by 2027. Policy also mandated that utilities acquire 1.2 GW of power from other renewable sources, including onshore wind. The 1 GW Bay State Wind is one of several planned offshore sites. On December 14, 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) opened bids for leases on three parcels, each 13,000 acres, located in federal waters south of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The three tentative winners, subject to final negotiations, were: Equinor Wind US, a division of the Norwegian oil company Equinor, formerly Statoil Mayflower Wind Energy, LLC, jointly owned by Shell and EDP Renewables Vineyard Wind, LLC, jointly owned by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and Avangrid Renewables. The auction raised a total of $405 million. The three areas could support 4.1 gigawatts of wind nameplate power, according to BOEM estimates. In April 2019, Vineyard Wind was awarded a contract to supply 800 MW of power to Massachusetts utilities at a price of 8.9 cents/kWh and will also spend $15 million on battery systems for energy storage. They plan to install 84 turbines, with their power line running between the Vineyard and Nantucket to Covell Beach in Centerville, and from there via land to the grid. The vessels used must comply with the Jones Act. Final major federal approval was granted on May 11, 2021. Massachusetts utilities Eversource, National Grid and Unitil are seeking proposals from offshore wind developers by August 9, 2019 for 15 to 20 years of at least 400 megawatts of offshore wind power. Current state support The state has implemented policy and infrastructure to support efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These policies and infrastructure are partially focused on promoting on- and off-shore wind power. Policy Green Communities Act (2008): created a commission to