BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is going all-in on wind energy.

Amid the fallout of the Vineyard Wind turbine blade failure off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts has secured the largest offshore wind energy procurement in state history.

The selected 2,678 megawatts from three projects, announced Friday, is also the largest purchase in New England to date and is part of a coordinated effort with Rhode Island, which will receive 200 megawatts.

More than 1.4 million Massachusetts homes will be powered through offshore wind generated from the procurement, according to officials. They say the allotment will “reduce the state’s carbon emissions by the equivalent of taking one million gas-powered cars off the road.”

“Today we are proud to announce that, along with our partners in Rhode Island, we are taking an important step towards energy independence, cleaner air and transforming our economy,” Gov. Maura Healey said in a statement. “Simply put, we are going big. … The world will look to New England for the future of clean energy.”

The procurement comes amid a tumultuous time in the offshore wind industry, which has been especially felt across the Cape and Islands.

Nantucket has been the epicenter of what residents and island officials have called a “crisis.”

Foam and shards of fiberglass have littered the ocean and washed ashore after a turbine blade shattered in the Vineyard Wind 1 project area, about 20 miles south of the Nantucket, in mid July.

GE Vernova has pointed to a “manufacturing deviation” — insufficient bonding — and not an engineering design flaw in the failure.

An initial environmental analysis of the disaster found debris from the blade to be “inert, non-soluble, stable and non-toxic.”

During a 25-minute press conference on the development at the State House, Healey and several members of her administration made no mention of the Nantucket failure.

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