Offshore Wind
Google becoming big energy player
Google may not seem like an energy company, but it sure is acting like one. Through more than $1 billion in investments and through large contracts for renewable power, Google has become the most significant player in the energy business outside of actual energy companies […]
Maine Gov. LePage signs offshore wind power bill
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage has signed a bill designed to provide for the development of offshore wind power projects in Maine. The Republican governor signed the bill into law on Friday. It will require Maine's Public Utilities ...
Offshore survey crew ships out
The state is funding the $3.3m project to expedite offshore wind development. The contract includes “a high resolution geophysical survey of the area of the outer continental shelf designated by the US Department of Interior as the Maryland wind energy ... reNews
Can An Old Massachusetts Fishing Port Light The World Again?
The Energy Department estimates that if the U.S. takes advantage of its wind potential by 2030, some 20,000 jobs could sprout up around the offshore wind industry. A quarter of the nation's wind reserves lie just south of Martha's Vineyard, and New ... See all […]
Offshore wind survey begins along MD coast
The information gleaned from the mission is intended to help offshore wind developers put together their bids to the federal government for leasing spots off the Maryland coast on which to build massive turbines. "In a perfect world, a wind energy ...
Wind developer eyes another massive project off Massachusetts coast
Jun 19, 2013, 6:33am EDT Deepwater Wind, a privately held developer of wind farms, is aggressively bidding to lease from the federal government an expanse of underwater land off the coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island that could eventually support a 1,000-megawatt wind farm. Full […]
With South Terminal construction underway, Cape Wind permits list Rhode …
NEW BEDFORD — Cape Wind's federal permits list Quonset Point, R.I., as the staging area for its planned 130-turbine wind farm to be located in Nantucket Sound. The offshore wind developer has said publicly it will use New Bedford's South Terminal to ...
Cape Wind gets $200M investment from Danish fund
BOSTON (AP) — The Cape Wind offshore wind project has secured a $200 million investment from a Danish pension fund in what the wind farm's president said Tuesday is a milestone for the long-delayed project. In a statement announcing the commitment, ...
City of Charleston Embraces Offshore Wind, Welcomes Opportunity
South Carolina has the second greatest offshore wind resource on the entire East Coast—enough wind to power millions of homes and create thousands of jobs for South Carolinians. Leveraging Charleston's assets such as its world-class port facilities, ...
Developers hoping for big impact from first offshore wind energy turbine in US
CASTINE — VolturnUS is a small step in what investors hope will be a big impact on how electricity is produced. The DeepCwind Constorium, a University of Maine led coalition of private and public partners, developed the first offshore wind turbine to ...
