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MORNING ROUNDUP: RI Court Lacks Documents For Offshore Wind Hearing
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 [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Ocean Energy Institute Seeks Direction
Tuesday, September 7, 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 [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Three Developers Reply To Evanston Offshore Wind RFI
Tuesday, August 31, 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. [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: RI Offshore Wind Planning Excludes Federal Waters
Monday, August 30, 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 [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Cape Wind Will Cost More Than $2.5 Billion
Monday, August 23, 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 [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Cape Wind Contract Survives External Challenge
Wednesday, August 18, 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 [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: MA Governor Candidates Criticize Cape Wind
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Three Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates criticized the Cape Wind offshore wind project yesterday while incumbent Gov. Deval Patrick defended the effort, the Boston Globe reported. Republican Charles Baker said that Cape Wind got “a sweetheart deal’’ from the state, according to the Globe.// Green-Rainbow Party candidate Jill Stein said there was a lack [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: MA Attorney General Calls For Cape Wind Approval
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley urged the state’s Public Utilities Commission to approve the power purchase agreement between Cape Wind and National Grid, the Boston Globe reported yesterday. Last month Coakley helped negotiate a reduction in the proposed rate from 20.7 cents per kilowatt/hour to 18.7 cents per kilowatt/hour. The Globe also reported that Coakley withdrew her [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: MA Energy Chief Predicts PPA Will Survive Legal Challenge
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Massachusetts Energy and Environment Secretary Ian Bowles said yesterday that the power purchase agreement between Cape Wind and National Grid would withstand a legal challenge from renewable energy producer TransCanada, the Boston Herald reported. In a filing on the Cape Wind PPA case, the company complained that the bidding process favors in-state producers. TransCanada filed a [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Cape Wind Reduces Power Price
Monday, August 2, 2010
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley brokered a deal late last week to reduce the cost of electricity from the Cape Wind offshore wind project, the Boston Herald reported on Friday. In May, National Grid agreed to buy half of the electricity produced by the proposed 130-turbine wind farm. The price in the first year of operations [...]
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- Govt Watchdog Says Cape Wind Review OK, Aviation Concerns Remain
- Group Forms To Oppose Lake Michigan Wind Farm
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