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MORNING ROUNDUP: GE Makes Offshore Wind Cuts
General Electric is scaling back its offshore wind development efforts, Forbes reported on Saturday. The company is considering laying off about 40 Norway-based offshore wind employees and has suspended plans to build a manufacturing plant in the UK, according to the report. Forbes reported that the company is focusing on deep-water offshore wind development, with a potential [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Cleveland Mayor Supports Lake Erie Wind Farm
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
In an editorial printed in the Cleveland Plain Dealer today, Mayor Frank Jackson publicly supported a planned Lake Erie offshore wind farm and said the project would support existing businesses and open opportunities for new ones. “The city of Cleveland fully supports the creation of this offshore wind farm. We have signed a memorandum of [...]
Continue reading...ANALYSIS: Great Lakes Offshore Wind Projects Move At Different Speeds
Thursday, July 28, 2011
By Todd Griset Winds are shifting over the Great Lakes, with offshore wind development in Ohio’s lake waters moving forward while projects in New York languish. The United States Department of Energy has identified 742.5 gigawatts of potential developable capacity in the lakes. However, differences in state and local regulatory environments and in development structures may lead [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Siemens Willing To Finance Cape Wind
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Siemens AG is prepared to finance the Cape Wind offshore wind farm, despite the fact that the federal government is not providing funding for a crucial loan guarantee program, Bloomberg reported yesterday. “We’ve always made it clear that we are not only willing but also capable of helping to support the whole project,” Siemens Chief Financial [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: House Lawmakers Call For Predictability In Renewable Energy Policy
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Republicans and Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee called yesterday for predictability in renewable energy development, including for offshore wind projects. During a hearing on renewable energy development on public lands and waters, Chairman Doc. Hasting called on the White House to end “bureaucratic delays, unnecessary lawsuits and burdensome environmental regulations [that] impede our ability to [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: New Blade Test Center Already Booked For 18 Months
Thursday, May 19, 2011
The Wind Technology Testing Center, which opened yesterday in Boston, is already fully scheduled for the next year and a half, the Boston Herald reported today. Senior Massachusetts political leaders, state energy officials and offshore wind industry representatives gathered Wednesday to open the $38 million facility — which is the nation’s largest blade testing operation. Engineers will [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Deepwater Submits Bid To Sell Offshore Wind Electricity To Long Island
Monday, May 9, 2011
Rhode Island-based Deepwater Wind has submitted a bid to sell up to 600 megawatts of offshore wind electricity to the Long Island (NY) Power Authority for a price in the “low teens” per kilowatt hour, the Providence Journal reported on Saturday. The electricity would come from a planned 1,000 megawatt wind farm that the developer [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Cleveland Offshore Wind Project Seeks Help From State Legislature
Thursday, May 5, 2011
The organization seeking to develop a pilot offshore wind project on Lake Erie — near Cleveland — is asking lawmakers to include a provision in the state budget that would encourage utilities to buy electricity from offshore wind projects, Crain’s Cleveland Business reported. The Lake Erie Energy Development Corp. — a nonprofit that represents several government [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: New York Power Authority Chairman Doubts Offshore Wind Plans
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
New York Power Authority board chairman Michael Townsend publicly questioned the viability of the agency’s plan to develop offshore wind on the Great Lakes, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported yesterday. “From my perspective, I don’t think that project is very viable at this time, politically or economically,” Townsend said. The NYPA, an independent state [...]
Continue reading...ANALYSIS: Great Lakes Offshore Wind Plans Face Delay, Moratorium, Proposed Ban
Thursday, April 21, 2011
By Todd Griset The past week has dealt setbacks to plans to develop offshore wind energy resources in the Great Lakes. While the winds over the Great Lakes hold great potential to provide usable power, state and provincial programs around the lakes are running into delays and snags. Two years ago, on Earth Day [...]
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