EIA Toots US Wind Energy Horn With Offshore Lease Summary
The US Energy Information Agency has high hopes for the US offshore wind industry, even though it has barely gotten its first “steel in the water.”
The US Energy Information Agency has high hopes for the US offshore wind industry, even though it has barely gotten its first “steel in the water.”
America’s first offshore wind farm, Deepwater Wind’s Block Island Wind Farm, began generating electricity on Monday, opening the door to what many hope will be a new electricity generating frontier.
The Obama administration has been on a role advancing EV charging across the US. The latest news from the administration is that the United State Department of Transportation (DOT) is establishing 48 national electric vehicle charging corridors. Thank you, President Obama, and we hope you and Michelle will be driving in an all-electric vehicle soon as well.
A new report published by the American Lung Association examines the true costs of gasoline vehicle pollution. The general finding: gasoline vehicle pollution damages and destroys human life much more than most of us want to realize.
The American Wind Energy Association’s Offshore WINDPOWER Conference & Exhibition was held in Rhode Island this week, anticipating the first generation of electricity from the country’s first ever offshore wind farm.
Announced on Tuesday, GE Energy Financial Services and Citi closed tax equity financing for Deepwater Wind’s Block Island Wind Farm being developed off the coast of Rhode Island, which will be the country’s first offshore wind farm. GE Energy Financial Services, a division of GE and a global energy investor, … [continued]
A group of 20 US governors has written to United States President Barack Obama seeking the expansion of the country’s wind and solar energy production. In an open letter (PDF) written on behalf of the Governors’ Wind & Solar Energy Coalition, a bipartisan group of the United States’ governors who are … [continued]
By Christian Roselund Last Thursday, workers using a boat-mounted crane secured the final 240-foot blade onto a massive wind turbine, anchored to the ocean floor beneath Long Island Sound. With this act the turbine, and four others like it, were completed off the coast of a small island in the … [continued]
The Long Island Power Authority is apparently set to approve a 90 MW offshore wind farm in New York Waters, according to recent reports. According to reports from Bloomberg news, the Long Island Power Authority is planning to approve a 90 MW offshore wind farm off the coast of New … [continued]
Recent policy moves in the states of Massachusetts and New York could initiate a long-awaited offshore wind energy boom in the United States. The global offshore wind energy market is growing rapidly, and at the end of 2015 was reported to have reached 12 GW — with several more GW … [continued]