Electric Buses Get Solar Charging & Battery Backup On Martha’s Vineyard
Half the buses on the island of Martha’s Vineyard are now electric. But the real news is that they will be recharged using solar energy.
Half the buses on the island of Martha’s Vineyard are now electric. But the real news is that they will be recharged using solar energy.
US offshore wind development company Vineyard Wind announced a new 1,200 megawatt (MW) offshore wind project proposal on Thursday called “Liberty Wind” in response to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s (NYSERDA) solicitation of offshore wind project proposals.
MHI Vestas has been named the preferred supplier for what is likely to be the United States first large-scale offshore wind farm, the 800 megawatt (MW) Vineyard Wind offshore wind farm set to be built off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
BYD has made progress in electrifying the east coast of the United States with a delivery of 5 electric buses to Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority.
Deepwater Wind, the de facto leading offshore wind developer in the United States, has announced ambitious plans to develop a 144 MW offshore wind farm near Martha’s Vineyard that will be equipped with a 40 MWh Tesla battery storage system.
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has issued its first approval of an offshore wind Site Assessment Plan to the Bay State Wind offshore wind farm being developed by DONG Energy and Eversource Energy.
Two European developers — PNE Wind AG and Statoil — have proposed two separate offshore wind farms off the north-east coast of the United States, and are asking the US government to open up new offshore sites.
All the customers of Cape Light Compact, in the 21 communities on Cape Cod and the island of Martha’s Vineyard, will get 100% of their electric power from renewable sources by the end of January 2017.
Danish offshore wind energy giant DONG Energy has teamed with New England transmission builder Eversource Energy in proposing a massive offshore wind project for US waters which has the potential to be at least 2 GW in size.
Researchers at the University of Delaware have concluded in a new report that the offshore winds in the waters of the northeastern United States might be “more powerful, yet more turbulent than expected.” The findings were published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres earlier this month in an Open Access … [continued]