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MORNING ROUNDUP: RI Offshore Wind Planning Excludes Federal Waters
Rhode Island’s much-heralded offshore wind mapping project does not include any recommendations for federal waters, the Providence Journal reported on Saturday. The Ocean Special Area Management Plan (SAMP) — which has taken two years and cost more than $8 million — conducted research beyond the three-mile state boundary but is not allowed to [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Appeals Filed Over RI Power Deal
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
The Rhode Island attorney general, an environmental nonprofit and an industry partnership appealed the recent approval of a power purchase agreement for the Deepwater Wind project near Block Island, the Providence Journal reported Tuesday. Attorney General Patrick Lynch and the Conservation Law Foundation appealed the decision by the Public Utilities Commission to the Supreme Court, [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: RI Approves Deepwater Pricing Agreement
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Rhode Island regulators yesterday gave National Grid approval to buy electricity from Deepwater Wind’s planned eight-turbine offshore wind project near Block Island. According to the Providence Journal, Gov. Donald Carcieri praised the decision as “a critical step in our bid to develop the nation’s first offshore wind project,” but state Attorney General Patrick Lynch said he [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Delaware Project Seeks Delivery Extension
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Delmarva Power yesterday asked the Delaware Public Service Commission to allow a two-year extension to the guaranteed delivery date for electricity from the NRG Bluewater Wind offshore wind project. The previous deadline was Dec. 1, 2014. The extension would move the deadline to Dec. 1, 2016. Officials from NRG Bluewater and Delmarva Power described [...]
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: 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: MA and RI Sign Offshore Wind Pact
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday to coordinate their offshore wind planning and development in federal waters, the Boston Globe reported on it’s Web site. The agreement covers a “400-square mile ‘area of mutual interest’ twelve miles southwest of Martha’s Vineyard and extending 20 miles [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: NY and Michigan Seek Community Acceptance for Offshore Wind
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Energy officials in New York and Michigan have been reaching out to the communities that would live near proposed offshore wind developments on the Great Lakes. Great Lakes states and Canadian provinces are pushing offshore wind development on the Great Lakes, according to several reports. The Niagara Gazette reported that local and state officials met last [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: RI Tries Again for Offshore Wind
Monday, July 12, 2010
Several months after getting rejected by the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission, National Grid filed a new power purchase agreement last week to buy electricity from the proposed Deepwater Wind project near Block Island. The new agreement, however, is essentially the same as the deal rejected earlier this year by the PUC for being too expensive, [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: RI Tries Block Island Project Again
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Three months after the Rhode Island regulators decided a power purchase agreement for the Block Island offshore wind project was too expensive, state lawmakers have restarted the process. The Providence Journal reported yesterday that Gov. Don Carcieri signed legislation “that establishes an abbreviated process for the PUC to consider the merits of a long-term agreement for National Grid [...]
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