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MORNING ROUNDUP: Ocean Energy Institute Seeks Direction
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: Wind Measurement Company Expands Manufacturing
Friday, September 3, 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, [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Massachusetts Court Allows Cape Wind “Super Permit”
Wednesday, September 1, 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 [...]
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: NJ Offshore Push Focused on Former BP Facility
Thursday, August 26, 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 [...]
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: RI Approves Deepwater Pricing Agreement
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Rhode Island regulators yesterday gave National Grid approval to buy electricity from Deepwater Wind’s planned eight-turbine offshore wind project near Block Island. According to the Providence Journal, Gov. Donald Carcieri praised the decision as “a critical step in our bid to develop the nation’s first offshore wind project,” but state Attorney General Patrick Lynch said he [...]
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 [...]
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- National Park Service Says Cape Wind Site Could Be Protected
- Cape Wind Hopeful After Salazar Meeting
- Final Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan Debuts Monday
- Govt Watchdog Says Cape Wind Review OK, Aviation Concerns Remain
- Group Forms To Oppose Lake Michigan Wind Farm
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