Former governor Chris Christie killed New Jersey’s chance to lead the nation on offshore wind energy, but since he’s no longer around to mess things up, the state is taking another shot at renewable energy glory.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has reportedly been crusading against offshore wind energy and he just won another battle, but the war is already lost.
The Energy Department is determined to revive a 500-megawatt offshore wind energy project in Maine that appeared all but dead last year.
Tiny Rhode Island has been leaping wind energy obstacles right and left, and is on its way to getting the nation’s first offshore wind farm off the ground.
Originally published on Energy & Policy Institute. Today the very big technical news for me is dual-doppler meteorology radar applied to create very high precision wind maps of operational wind farms. Brian Hirth of the Texas Tech University and his team have applied technology typically used for high-accuracy real time imaging … [continued]
