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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: 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 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: Final Push for RI Wind Price Approval
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Rhode Island political leaders pushed Monday for the state’s Public Utilities Commission to approve a power purchase agreement between Deepwater Wind and National Grid, the Providence Journal reported. The pressure came as the commission enters its final week of hearing evidence on the pricing deal for an eight-turbine farm off Block Island — a decision is [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Maine Will Seek Bids For Floating Wind Farm
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
The Maine Public Utilities Commission is planning a Sept. 1 solicitation for an offshore wind developer to build a 25 megawatt floating wind farm, Working Waterfront reported yesterday. The project must be in water that is at least 300-feet-deep and at least 10 miles from the mainland or any inhabited island, according to Working Waterfront. The winning [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Cape Wind Sticker Shock
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Days after National Grid agreed to purchase 50 percent of Cape Wind’s output, observers and opponents are gawking at the price of offshore wind. The power purchase agreement — which can be seen here — was reached last Friday and submitted to Massachusetts state regulators yesterday. The deal calls for National Grid to pay 20.7 cents [...]
Continue reading...Cape Wind Agrees to PPA with National Grid
Monday, May 10, 2010
By Peter Brennan Days after receiving federal approval, the Cape Wind offshore wind project cleared another major hurdle by agreeing to a power purchase agreement with local utility National Grid. The agreement, submitted to the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities today, calls for National Grid to pay 20.7 cents per kilowatt/hour for 50 percent of Cape Wind’s [...]
Continue reading...Rhode Island Commission Rejects Power Purchase Agreement
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
By William Morgan The Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission yesterday rejected a proposed offshore wind power purchase agreement between Deepwater Wind and National Grid as being too expensive and not “commercially reasonable.” Last December, National Grid agreed to buy power from Deepwater’s planned eight-turbine offshore wind project near Block Island for 24.4 cents per kilowatt/hour. That price [...]
Continue reading...Rhode Island Political Leaders Back Offshore Wind Pricing
Friday, March 12, 2010
By William Morgan The leaders of the Rhode Island House and Senate wrote to the state Public Utilities Commission Wednesday to support an offshore wind pricing agreement between Deepwater Wind and National Grid. One day earlier, however, the director of the Energy Council of Rhode Island sharply criticized the deal and said it would harm large energy [...]
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