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Cleveland Offshore Wind Project Aims For 2014 Construction
By Peter Brennan BALTIMORE — The Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo) is planning to begin construction on its pilot offshore wind farm in 2014, according to CEO Lorry Wagner. In an interview yesterday with Offshore Wind Wire, Wagner said that the project near Cleveland is on track and LEEDCo officials are currently negotiating power purchase agreements [...]
Continue reading...FRIDAY INTERVIEW: Five Questions For Larry Viterna
Friday, September 16, 2011
Last week, the Department of Energy awarded $43 million in grants to support offshore wind development. As part of that funding, Ohio-based Nautica Windpower received $500,000 to “develop a conceptual design for a deep water offshore wind farm using lightweight floating platforms.” The company has said that its offshore wind turbines will produce electricity at [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: GE Makes Offshore Wind Cuts
Monday, September 12, 2011
General Electric is scaling back its offshore wind development efforts, Forbes reported on Saturday. The company is considering laying off about 40 Norway-based offshore wind employees and has suspended plans to build a manufacturing plant in the UK, according to the report. Forbes reported that the company is focusing on deep-water offshore wind development, with a potential [...]
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...MORNING ROUNDUP: House Lawmakers Call For Predictability In Renewable Energy Policy
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Republicans and Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee called yesterday for predictability in renewable energy development, including for offshore wind projects. During a hearing on renewable energy development on public lands and waters, Chairman Doc. Hasting called on the White House to end “bureaucratic delays, unnecessary lawsuits and burdensome environmental regulations [that] impede our ability to [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: New Blade Test Center Already Booked For 18 Months
Thursday, May 19, 2011
The Wind Technology Testing Center, which opened yesterday in Boston, is already fully scheduled for the next year and a half, the Boston Herald reported today. Senior Massachusetts political leaders, state energy officials and offshore wind industry representatives gathered Wednesday to open the $38 million facility — which is the nation’s largest blade testing operation. Engineers will [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Deepwater Submits Bid To Sell Offshore Wind Electricity To Long Island
Monday, May 9, 2011
Rhode Island-based Deepwater Wind has submitted a bid to sell up to 600 megawatts of offshore wind electricity to the Long Island (NY) Power Authority for a price in the “low teens” per kilowatt hour, the Providence Journal reported on Saturday. The electricity would come from a planned 1,000 megawatt wind farm that the developer [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Vestas Will Announce Six MW Offshore Wind Turbine In March
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Next month, Vestas Wind Systems will announce plans to sell a six megawatt offshore wind turbine, Bloomberg reported. “The 6-megawatt turbine will be marketed and presented here in London on the 30th of March,” said Vestas CEO Ditlev Engel. Largest Blade Testing Facility Nearly Open The largest wind turbine blade testing facility in the world — being built [...]
Continue reading...ANALYSIS: Race Is On For Great Lakes Wind
Thursday, January 13, 2011
By Todd Griset On Lake Erie, the Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo) continues to make progress toward the nation’s first freshwater offshore wind development — five wind turbines in state waters about 7 miles off Cleveland. Founded in 2009, LEEDCo is a private nonprofit economic development corporation. LEEDCo grew out of the [...]
Continue reading...Ohio Politicians Tout Lake Erie for Nation’s First Freshwater Wind Farm
Monday, March 29, 2010
By Peter Brennan Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced today that he has proposed a new piece of legislation aimed at installing a large scale offshore wind farm off the shores of Lake Erie. Brown’s legislation, titled The Program for Offshore Wind Energy Research and Development (POWERED) Act of 2010, would spur research on potential offshore wind projects, [...]
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