Offshore Wind
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 ...
How to Put a Wind Turbine in the Texas Gulf
The GoWind Project is competing with seven other offshore wind operations for money from the Department of Energy, which will choose three of the projects for full funding next Spring. Otten recently spoke to StateImpact Texas about the progress of the ...
Deepwater expects to win US offshore wind lease: CEO
Privately held Deepwater Wind expects to win a federal lease to build a wind farm of up to 1,000 megawatts (MW) in federal waters south of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, the company's chief executive said in an interview. The Department of Interior's ...
Atlantic wind power ‘backbone’ plan amended?
A first-of-its-kind plan to deliver offshore wind power to electricity users has been blowing in the wind. But developers seeking coveted ratepayer subsidies are re-imagining it as a New Jersey-only project, rousing new interest from government policy ... See all stories on this topic »
Cape Wind Hires Firm To Assist With Project Management
U.S.-based offshore wind developer Cape Wind has signed a consulting services agreement with the North America division of PMSS - a European offshore wind consulting firm and a part of the TUV SUD group. Under the agreement, PMSS will assist Cape ...
Model offshore wind turbine to send first electrons into US grid this week
... of a cost-effective, job-creating, innovative U.S. offshore wind technology." The goal also includes reducing the the cost of offshore wind to 10 cents per kilowatt hour by 2020, in order to compete with other forms of electricity generation ...
The business case for wind power: Opinion
People sometimes ask why an Internet company like Google has chosen to invest in the Atlantic Wind Connection — a multi-billion-dollar electric transmission “backbone” designed to carry power from offshore wind farms. The answer is simple: At Google ...
