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. The city manager is now reviewing the responses, according to Medill Reports. An environmental advocacy group, Citizens for a Greener Evanston, is attempting to answer citizen questions about offshore wind development, the Web site said.
“We’re just now moving forward to see if this will actually make sense for our community,” said Nathan Kipnis, a member of the advocacy group.
The Web site quoted Kipnis saying that the community’s offshore wind proponents are “looking at a seven or eight year process.”
Cape Wind Foes File Motion with MA Regulators
Cape Wind opponents asked the Massachusetts Department of Public Uilities to block the wind farm’s power purchase agreement because of alleged flaws in the solicitation process, the Boston Herald reported over the weekend.
Cape Wind criticized the motion as a stall tactic.
“This is yet another in a long series of attempts by this coal- and oil-funded opposition group to try to delay Cape Wind’s benefits of hundreds of new jobs, greater energy independence and cleaner air to the people of Massachusetts,” said Cape Wind spokesman Mark Rodgers.
31. August 2010 at 9:53 pm
Cape Wind should be able to distinquish the difference between a kill tactic and a stall tactic.
MassINC and CommonWealth magazine:
“National Grid’s proposed contract with Cape Wind may include the most detailed analysis of a green initiative’s cost. The utility estimates its 1.2 million electric customers in Massachusetts will pay somewhere between 42 percent and 50 percent more for Cape Wind power than they would if that power was purchased from conventional sources. That’s $734 million to $885 million extra (in 2013 dollars) over the life of the 15-year contract.
And it doesn’t include an extra 4 percent fee ($70.6 million in 2013 dollars) that National Grid will collect for doing the deal.”
http://www.commonwealthmagazine.org/~/media/Files/Commonwealth%20Magazine/CW%20Magazine/Full%20PDF%20Issue%20Files/Special_2010.ashx
Cape Wind has spec’d the Siemens’ 3.6 MW wind turbine.
‘Siemens forced to repair coroding bearings on 3.6MW offshore turbines’
James Quilter, Windpower Monthly, 17 August 2010, 2:22pm
OFFSHORE: Siemens is carrying out essential maintenance work on four offshore wind farms, including the recently opened Gunfleet Sands, after it was discovered the turbines’ bearings were corroding…”
continue reading: http://www.windpowermonthly.com/go/europe/news/1022734/Siemens-forced-repair-coroding-bearings-36MW-offshore-turbines/
Tactics being used against Cape Wind are being used in defensse of rate and taxpayers entitled to reliable and affordable energy that Cape Wind would not produce.
Kill Cape Wind!