Here’s The Real Reason Why The Offshore Wind Energy Industry Has The Happies
Energy Secretary lays out doomsday scenario for fossil energy stakeholders in Houston while offshore wind energy industry celebrates in Atlantic City.
Cape Wind
$150 Million Loan Heats Up Offshore Wind Power Race
The Cape Wind offshore wind power project in Massachusetts is thisclose to receiving an Energy Department loan guarantee of $150 million, part of a 54 GW plan for commercial scale US offshore wind power.
2013 Wind PPA Prices In US Interior Averaged 2.1 Cents/KWH (WINDPOWER 2014)
Originally published on Energy & Policy Institute. Las Vegas isn’t exactly a familiar haunt for me, but I’ve been here several times for conferences (and one wedding). I had seen the wine angel in the Mandalay Bay floating up in her harness beside the several story wine cellar a few … [continued]
Offshore Wind Advances in Rhode Island, Texas, Georgia
America’s nascent offshore wind industry took several steps forward over the past month with project announcements in Rhode Island, Texas, and Georgia.
Huge Win For Offshore Wind Farm In Massachusetts
The massive Cape Wind offshore wind farm scored a huge legal victory on Friday, when US District Judge Reggie B. Walton upheld the results of a ten-year permitting process and rejected a laundry list of claims brought by local opposition groups. Chief among those opponents is one of the industrialist … [continued]
America’s 1st Offshore Wind Farm May Be Commissioned By 2016
Originally published on ThinkProgress. By Katie Valentine. Cape Cod is one step closer to getting its first offshore wind farm, a project that’s been trying to get off the ground for more than a decade. The Danish export credit agency EKF has approved a $600 million loan for the Cape … [continued]
Massive Wind Farm Takes Shape Off…Rhode Island?
When it comes to tapping into America’s vast offshore wind power potential along the East Coast, the notorious Cape Wind project has been hogging the spotlight, but creeping up right on its heels — and maybe even passing it in the home stretch — is the Block Island Wind Farm … [continued]
Massive Cape Wind Project (Finally) Kicks Into High Gear
The global wind turbine leader Siemens has just inked a deal to provide its offshore turbines to the massive new Cape Wind wind power project, and that one contract could shake the offshore wind power market to its core. You know what they say about waking the sleeping tiger, right? … [continued]
BOEM Announces Third US Offshore Wind Competitive Lease Auction
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has announced it will hold America’s third competitive offshore wind lease auction for 80,000 acres off Maryland’s coast.
Deepwater Wind Wins America’s First Offshore Wind Competitive Lease Sale
Deepwater Wind has won the Interior Department’s first-ever competitive offshore wind lease auction, totaling 164,750 acres near Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Deepwater’s $3.8 million bid wins it the right to build the Deepwater Wind Energy Center, a 1,000MW utility-scale wind farm with 200 turbines and a regional transmission system linking to New York State and southeastern New England.
