Archive | August, 2010
MORNING ROUNDUP: Three Developers Reply To Evanston Offshore Wind RFI
Three offshore wind developers responded this summer to a request for information from the city of Evanston, Illinois, according to Medill Reports, a Northwestern University-based Web site.
The article did not identify the companies that submitted responses.
City officials issued the RFI to gain more insight into a plan for 40 offshore wind turbines in Lake Michigan. [...]
MORNING ROUNDUP: RI Offshore Wind Planning Excludes Federal Waters
30. August 2010
Rhode Island’s much-heralded offshore wind mapping project does not include any recommendations for federal waters, the Providence Journal reported on Saturday.
The Ocean Special Area Management Plan (SAMP) — which has taken two years and cost more than $8 million — conducted research beyond the three-mile state boundary but is not allowed to [...]
MORNING ROUNDUP: NJ Offshore Push Focused on Former BP Facility
26. August 2010
Offshore wind legislation signed recently by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is focused on redeveloping a former BP oil facility in South Jersey, the Times of Trenton reported today.
“The Paulsboro Marine Terminal, a port on the Delaware River the state has struggled to revitalize, is considered an ideal site for manufacturing wind turbines,” the paper [...]
MORNING ROUNDUP: Daewoo Considering North American Wind Farm
25. August 2010
Daewoo Shipbuilding — the giant South Korean corporation that is currently developing its own offshore wind turbine — is considering developing a wind farm in North America, Bloomberg reported yesterday.
The company aims to generate 30 percent of its sales from wind power by 2020, according to the report.
“It’s a very ambitious target and it won’t [...]
MORNING ROUNDUP: Appeals Filed Over RI Power Deal
24. August 2010
The Rhode Island attorney general, an environmental nonprofit and an industry partnership appealed the recent approval of a power purchase agreement for the Deepwater Wind project near Block Island, the Providence Journal reported Tuesday.
Attorney General Patrick Lynch and the Conservation Law Foundation appealed the decision by the Public Utilities Commission to the Supreme Court, [...]
MORNING ROUNDUP: Cape Wind Will Cost More Than $2.5 Billion
23. August 2010
The Cape Wind offshore wind project will cost more than $2.5 billion to build, not including the cost of financing, the Boston Globe reported over the weekend.
The Globe reported on an analysis of the Cape Wind power purchase agreement. That analysis, by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, was submitted to state regulators who [...]
MORNING ROUNDUP: Duke Energy Drops NC Offshore Wind Demonstration
20. August 2010
Duke Energy announced yesterday that it is abandoning a project to install several demonstration wind turbines off the North Carolina coast, the Associated Press reported.
The company had planned to develop the three-turbine project in conjunction with the University of North Carolina but ultimately decided the cost was too high and the potential environmental impact was [...]
Offshore Wind Coalition Will Focus on Streamlined Federal Permitting
19. August 2010
By Peter Brennan
The Offshore Wind Development Coalition – a newly minted advocacy group – will focus initially on streamlining federal regulations, the leader of the organization said last week in an interview with Offshore Wind Wire.
The group, also known as OffshoreWindDC, is led by former Deepwater Wind executive Jim Lanard. Referring to the recently approved [...]
MORNING ROUNDUP: NJ Governor to Sign Offshore Wind Bill
19. August 2010
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is expected to sign the Offshore Wind Economic Development Act today, according to a report in the Star-Ledger Wednesday.
The bill calls for $100 million in tax credits for offshore wind companies and will eventually require that a percentage of electricity sold in New Jersey come from offshore wind [...]
MORNING ROUNDUP: Cape Wind Contract Survives External Challenge
18. August 2010
Massachusetts regulators directed a local utility to rebid three land-based wind contracts but exempted Cape Wind from the decision, the Boston Globe reported.
The Public Utilities Commission said that NStar must allow out-of-state electricity generators to compete for three contracts but Cape Wind — which has a contract with National Grid — was excluded because that [...]
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