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New York Power Authority Ends Great Lakes Wind Project
By Peter Brennan The New York Power Authority Board of Trustees voted today to end an effort to develop an offshore wind project on the Great Lakes. The NYPA announced that it would end its competitive solicitation process for the proposed wind farm without choosing a developer. The Trustees cited the higher than average cost of [...]
Continue reading...New York Offshore Wind Collaborative Files Lease Application, Will Seek Developer
Thursday, September 15, 2011
By Peter Brennan The Long Island–New York City Offshore Wind Collaborative filed an offshore wind lease application today with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement and announced that they would competitively seek a developer. The collaborative — which consists of Consolidated Edison Company of New York, the Long Island Power Authority, [...]
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...ANALYSIS: Long Island Setback Highlights Challenges of Offshore Wind Interconnection
Thursday, June 30, 2011
By Todd Griset Interconnecting an offshore wind project to the grid can be challenging. Securing the grid operator’s approval to interconnect is a critical step in developing a project. While the extent of these challenges – and the costs of overcoming them – vary from site to site, one New York offshore [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Long Island Collaborative Tables Offshore Wind Project
Monday, June 27, 2011
The offshore wind collaborative led by the Long Island Power Authority has told New York’s Independent System Operator that it will not be able to meet development milestones and asked to be removed from the project queue, North American Windpower reported today. A spokeswoman for the Power Authority said that the collaborative was not able to [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Cape Wind Considers Financing Through Bond Market
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Cape Wind might turn to the bond market to finance the planned 468 megawatt offshore wind farm, Dow Jones Newswire reported yesterday. Cape Wind parent company Energy Management Inc., intends to finance 80 percent of the project with Department of Energy loans, according to the Dow Jones report. The company has also reportedly applied for a [...]
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...MORNING ROUNDUP: Offshore Wind Transmission Application Extends To New York
Friday, April 1, 2011
The Atlantic Wind Connection’s application to federal regulators this week expands the projects original vision northward to New York City, the New York Times reported today. The undersea transmission backbone for offshore wind projects was originally designed to run from Virginia to northern New Jersey but the application to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management asks [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: O’Malley Pushes Maryland Offshore Wind Legislation
Friday, February 4, 2011
In his state of the state speech yesterday, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley touted planned legislation that would require Maryland’s utilities to award long-term contracts to offshore wind projects, the Washington Post reported. According to the Post report, state officials believe turbines could be operational in the ocean near Maryland as early as 2015. “No one questions [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: NYPA Will Choose Great Lakes Developer By April
Thursday, January 20, 2011
The New York Power Authority is on schedule to choose an offshore wind developer for a project in Lake Ontario or Lake Erie by March 31, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported yesterday. The NYPA, which is a governmental agency, sought offshore wind developers in 2009 and received five proposals in June, 2010. The Democrat and Chronicle [...]
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
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