Offshore Wind Wire

MORNING ROUNDUP: Duke Energy Drops NC Offshore Wind Demonstration

Duke Energy announced yesterday that it is abandoning a project to install several demonstration wind turbines off the North Carolina coast, the Associated Press reported. The company had planned to develop the three-turbine project in conjunction with the University of North Carolina but ultimately decided the cost was too high and the potential environmental impact was [...]

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NC Offshore Wind Demonstration Begins Environmental Study

By David McGlinchey Duke Energy will hold a public meeting March 18th in the Outer Banks town of Manteo to discuss the newly launched environmental impact study for a proposed three-turbine offshore wind demonstration project. The Army Corps of Engineers filed the official notice launching the study in February, according to Duke Energy spokesman Jason Walls.  He [...]

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