New US Floating Offshore Wind Auction Caps Run Of Bad News For Fossil Energy
US floating offshore wind industry peels self off wall, aims for 4.5 gigawatts in capacity off California coast.
US floating offshore wind industry peels self off wall, aims for 4.5 gigawatts in capacity off California coast.
This sunshine week I would like to express my appreciation for all of the work that Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) officers at federal agencies have done and continue to do to ensure public access to government communications, records, and documents.
Recent reports show that political appointees at the Department of the Interior (DOI) ignored experts who opposed issuing a rule rolling back safety measures for offshore oil rig workers.
The American Wind Energy Association has described language in recently-released Defense and Department of the Interior FY 2020 appropriations bills as “redundant” and says it threatens to needlessly delaying the development of the country’s offshore wind pipeline.
Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil has won the offshore wind lease to 79,350 acres off the coast of New York with a winning bid of $42.5 million.
US President Barack Obama has halted new coal leasing while the Department of the Interior launches a comprehensive review of the federal coal program. The news was announced on Friday by Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, who revealed that the Interior Department “will launch a comprehensive review to identify … [continued]
Originally published on ThinkProgress. By Jeff Spross. Earlier this week, lawmakers dropped a $1.1 trillion bill to fund the federal government’s discretionary spending through the rest of fiscal year 2014. The omnibus budget represents a bipartisan compromise aimed at relieving some of the sequester cuts, while also extending funding that would’ve run … [continued]
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.
American offshore wind took another major step forward yesterday with the second-ever competitive lease sale to develop renewable energy in federal waters.
A subsidiary of Dominion Virginia Power won the Interior Department’s auction to develop 112,800 acres about 23 miles from Virginia Beach with a bid of $1.6 billion.
There is a wind farm being planned for Lake Erie called “Icebreaker.” Over 4,500 people in northeast Ohio pledged to purchase electricity from this wind farm, according to Lake Erie Energy Development Corp. (LEEDCo), which is the non-profit organization planning the project. LEEDCo has been collecting the signatures for this pledge effort … [continued]