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FRIDAY INTERVIEW: Four Questions For Ian Bowles
Ian Bowles is managing director of Rhumb Line Energy, LLC. Until January, he was the Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs. This week, Bowles moderated an offshore wind panel at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Offshore Wind Wire: As the Massachusetts Energy and Environment Secretary, you saw first hand the difficulties that Cape Wind experienced while navigating [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: MIT Will Host Offshore Wind Panel
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
The MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge is holding a panel discussion next week on offshore wind development in New England. The event, “Offshore Wind in New England: Lessons Learned, the Way Forward,” will be moderated by former Massachusetts Energy and Environment Secretary Ian Bowles. The panel will include representatives from offshore wind construction company EEW, development and [...]
Continue reading...Feds Release RFI For Water Near Massachusetts
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
By Peter Brennan The federal government yesterday released a request for interest for offshore wind projects in federal waters near Massachusetts — officially launching that leasing process. While the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement has been dutifully drafting this RFI, they have also been accepting and evaluating unsolicited lease applications for the immediately adjacent [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: White House Protests Chinese Turbine Manufacturing Subsidies
Thursday, December 23, 2010
The Obama Administration filed a complaint to the World Trade Organization Wednesday, accusing China of illegally subsidizing its wind turbine manufacturing industry, the New York Times reported. The White House protest alleges that a Chinese domestic subsidy program is illegal because it requires wind turbine manufacturers to use parts made in China, according to the [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Official Says Deepwater Project Requires MA Approval
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Massachusetts Energy and Environment Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles said yesterday that Deepwater Wind’s proposed 1,000 megawatt wind farm must receive approval from both Massachusetts and Rhode Island before being built, the Associated Press reported. Deepwater announced yesterday that it had applied to federal regulators for permission to build a 200-turbine wind farm in Rhode Island Sound. [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Michigan Offshore Wind Legislation Appears Dead
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
State legislation designed to regulate and boost offshore wind development in Michigan has apparently stalled and will not be voted on in 2010, Interlochen Public Radio reported yesterday. According to the report, the legislation did not make it out of the house energy committee on Tuesday. Lawmakers, meanwhile, are expected to conclude their lame-duck session this [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: New York Holds First Offshore Wind Task Force Meeting
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Federal offshore wind planning officials met last week with New York state, local and tribal officials in the first step toward commercial leasing of the federal waters off that state, BrighterEnergy.org reported. Similar task forces are in place in Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Virginia. “BOEMRE created this task force to [...]
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...Salazar Approves Cape Wind!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
By Peter Brennan Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar gave his official approval to Cape Wind today, clearing the way for the nation’s first wind farm to be built on federal submerged lands in Nantucket Sound. During a noon press conference with Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick at the Massachusetts State House, Salazar approved the Cape Wind project, [...]
Continue reading...MA Official Cautions Cape Wind, National Grid on Purchase Price
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
By Peter Brennan Offshore wind developer Cape Wind and electricity distributor and generator National Grid received a stern warning last week from Massachusetts’ top energy official regarding the power purchase agreement being negotiated by the two entities. In a Feb. 17, letter addressed to Cape Wind President Jim Gordon and Thomas King, head of Electricity Distribution and [...]
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