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MORNING ROUNDUP: Feds Push Leases 12 Miles Offshore Near Massachusetts
The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement announced yesterday that it will reduce the area opened for offshore wind leases near Massachusetts, the Cape Cod Times reported today.
The reduced area for federal offshore wind leasing near Massachusetts begins 12 miles offshore and covers 2,542 square nautical miles. Under the original plan [...]
MORNING ROUNDUP: RI Court Lacks Documents For Offshore Wind Hearing
8. September 2010
The Rhode Island Supreme Court can not set a date to hear an appeal of the state’s first offshore wind power purchase agreement because the justices have not received all documents related to the case, the Providence Journal reported today.
State regulators recently approved the electricity purchase deal between Deepwater Wind and utility National Grid. The [...]
MORNING ROUNDUP: Ocean Energy Institute Seeks Direction
7. September 2010
Still reeling from the death of founder and leader Matthew Simmons, staff and board members at the Ocean Energy Institute are debating the organization’s mission and path forward, the Portland Press Herald reported Sunday.
The Maine-based Institute could continue as a non profit research group, join with another organization or pursue a private, for-profit [...]
MORNING ROUNDUP: Wind Measurement Company Expands Manufacturing
3. September 2010
Massachusetts-based Second Wind Inc. is growing its manufacturing operations for wind measuring equipment, Mass High Tech reported yesterday.
The company is making a strong push in sodar technology systems and CEO Larry Letteney told Mass High Tech that Second Wind now has 65 percent of the market for remote sensing technology for wind. Last month, [...]
Maine Releases RFP for Offshore Wind and Tidal Energy
2. September 2010
By Peter Brennan
The Maine Public Utilities Commission issued a request for proposals Wednesday for a deepwater offshore wind pilot project and tidal renewable energy demonstration project. The RFP is the result of a law passed by the state legislature in April that implemented the recommendations of the Governor’s Ocean Energy Task force.
According to the RFP, [...]
MORNING ROUNDUP: Massachusetts Court Allows Cape Wind “Super Permit”
1. September 2010
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled yesterday the state was allowed to overrule community opposition when it granted a “super permit” to the Cape Wind offshore wind project in 2009, the Boston Globe reported.
According to the Globe, if the court decision had gone the other way “the project would probably have been delayed [...]
MORNING ROUNDUP: Three Developers Reply To Evanston Offshore Wind RFI
31. August 2010
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: 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, [...]
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9. September 2010
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