Hurray! Construction Begins on First US Offshore Wind Farm
The demonstration wind farm lays the groundwork for the real thing - a 1 gigawatt offshore wind farm.
The demonstration wind farm lays the groundwork for the real thing - a 1 gigawatt offshore wind farm.
Two utilities that signed agreements to buy most of the power are pulling out.
Deepwater got its final permits to put 5 turbines in the ocean off Rhode Island, and a third auction leased 80,000 acres off Maryland's coast.
Massachusetts is opening almost 750,000 acres for offshore wind, to be auctioned in four leases.
The US Department of Energy will release its Wind Vision initiative this fall and announced three more demonstration projects in offshore wind.
While Scotland moves forward on a 1.9 GW wind farm, New Jersey can't even get a 25 MW one off the ground.
Five floating wind turbines will be built if the pilot gets final approval.
Wind speeds would have been cut in half during Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy if offshore wind farms had been there.
The company is paying $1.6 million to lease federal waters that could produce 2 gigawatts of wind.
The Triton Knoll Wind Farm, off the coast of England, will supply electricity to 820,000 homes.