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MORNING ROUNDUP: FERC Allows Atlantic Wind Connection 12.59 Percent Profit
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gave approval yesterday for the Atlantic Wind Connection to collect a 12.59 percent profit on the offshore wind transmission backbone that will stretch from New York to southern Virginia, Bloomberg reported. The company sought a 13.58 percent return, according to the report. “All orders are compromises,” FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff said. The [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: New Jersey Accepting Applications For Offshore Wind In State Waters
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced yesterday that the state Board of Public Utilities is now accepting applications for offshore wind projects in state waters, NewJerseyNewsroom.com reported. After applications are submitted and certified as complete, they will enter a six-month review process, according to the report. The application deadline is June 14. Deepwater Has Met With ECO Fab Companies Rhode [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Companies Form Joint Venture To Build Offshore Wind Foundations, Towers
Monday, May 16, 2011
A Massachusetts company that has agreed to provide foundations to Cape Wind today announced a joint venture with two other firms to build structural components for East Coast offshore wind projects, the Boston Herald reported. Mass Tank, EEW Group of Germany and Gulf Island Fabrication of Louisiana, announced the formation of East Coast Offshore Fabrication LLC, [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Rhode Island Appellants Say Block Island Deal Underestimates Cost
Thursday, May 12, 2011
An attorney representing two Rhode Island manufacturers told the Rhode Island Supreme Court yesterday that the power purchase agreement for the Block Island offshore wind farm underestimates the cost of the project, the Providence Journal reported. Michael McElroy, who is representing Toray Plastics and Polytop Corp. in their appeal of the Block Island power purchase agreement, [...]
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: Cleveland Offshore Wind Project Seeks Help From State Legislature
Thursday, May 5, 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Report Projects 70 GW of Global Offshore Wind By 2017
Friday, April 29, 2011
A report released today estimated that global installed offshore wind capacity will increase by a factor of seventeen by the year 2017. The report, from Colorado-based Pike Research, projects worldwide offshore wind capacity to increase from 4.1 gigawatts 70.1 GW. “Some of the world’s best wind resources are located offshore,” senior Pike Research analyst Peter Asmus said. RI Report Urges Caution On [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Cape Wind Foes Latch On To Cape Cod Right Whale Sightings
Thursday, April 28, 2011
The sighting of several North Atlantic Right Whales in Nantucket Sound — the site of the planned Cape Wind offshore wind farm — has generated new criticism from long-standing project opponent the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, the Cape Cod Times reported. Aerial teams from the National Marine Fisheries Service spotted the whales, and a voluntary [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Court Allows Appeal of Block Island Power Purchase Agreement
Monday, April 25, 2011
The Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled last Friday that two manufacturers will be allowed to appeal the approval of a power purchase agreement for Deepwater Wind’s Block Island wind farm, the Providence Journal reported. The court decided, however, that the environmental group Conservation Law Foundation did not have the legal standing to continue its appeal [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Maryland Lawmakers Postpone Offshore Wind Bill For “Study”
Friday, April 8, 2011
Maryland legislators have shelved the state’s offshore wind legislation, saying that they need additional time to study the proposal, the Baltimore Sun reported yesterday. The bill would have required utilities to sign long-term power purchase agreements with offshore wind developers. “This is a massive, complex idea,” said Shaun Adamec, a spokesman for Gov. Martin O’Malley. The bill [...]
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