Offshore Wind Wire

ANALYSIS: BOEMRE Call Prompts Offshore Wind Development Between MA and RI

By Todd Griset Offshore wind off the New England coast has been in the spotlight of late. As a region, New England offers a strong offshore wind resource and is particularly rich in deep water sites.  The region also offers a number of deep water ports, many with useful infrastructure but depressed local economies, highlighting the onshore [...]

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MORNING ROUNDUP: MIT Will Host Offshore Wind Panel

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 [...]

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MORNING ROUNDUP: Cleveland Offshore Wind Project Seeks Help From State Legislature

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 [...]

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MORNING ROUNDUP: Army Corps Seeks Relaxed Regulations For Small Offshore Wind Projects

The Army Corps of Engineers is seeking comments on a proposed nationwide permit to ease regulations on small-scale offshore wind projects, Renewable Energy World reported last week. The proposal was published on Feb. 16 and comments are due by April 18. The new regulations would apply to projects with 10 or fewer individual turbines that do [...]

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MORNING ROUNDUP: Muskegon Welcomes Lake Michigan Offshore Wind Research

City officials in Muskegon, Michigan, voted to support Grand Valley State University’s offshore wind research efforts, the Muskegon Chronicle reported on Saturday. The city agreed to to be a co-applicant for state and federal environmental permit applications, according to the report.  The support will not require any financial commitment.  The decision comes in sharp contrast to [...]

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MORNING ROUNDUP: BOEMRE Says Interstate Cooperation Key to Offshore Wind Development

A senior Interior Department official told Massachusetts and Rhode Island officials on Friday that a close working relationship between the two states will be a crucial underpinning for successful offshore wind projects, the Providence Journal reported. “Cooperation is going to be the way wind development happens on the Atlantic Coast,” said Ned Farquhar, deputy [...]

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Neptune Wind Selects Offshore Wind Site Near Nantucket

By Peter Brennan Offshore wind developer Neptune Wind announced Monday that the company has “finalized our preferred site for development” off of Nanucket, MA. The potential site, selected after a year of research, is large enough to accommodate 1.5 GW of offshore wind production, according to Neptune founder Chuck Digate. The announcement, made via the company’s blog, did [...]

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Neptune Wind Plans 1,000 MW of New England Offshore Wind Projects

A seven-month old offshore wind development company announced yesterday that it intends to develop offshore wind projects in several New England locations totaling more than 1,000 megawatts (MW) of capacity. Neptune Wind LLC, based in Massachusetts, has been researching sites in state and federal waters for projects sized between 200 MW and 500 MW of capacity. “We [...]

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