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Should we lift the moratorium on offshore wind in the Great Lakes?

January 26, 2012 by Tyler Hamilton
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For a year now there has been a moratorium on the development of offshore wind projects in the Great Lakes. The Ontario government issued the ban because it said more study was needed to make sure the projects can be developed safety and responsibly, even though such studies were supposedly already done when the previous moratorium was... [read more]

Offshore Wind Gets Its Bearings After NRG's Project Collapses

December 20, 2011 by Jim Pierobon
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“Financially untenable” is how NRG Energy updates its outlook for what was a planned array of wind turbines offshore Delaware. And with that prognosis, the future of wind energy off the U.S. East Coast is very much in doubt. While the project’s fate may have been cast when the U.S. Department of Energy rejected its application for a... [read more]

How Fast Can Offshore Wind Be Deployed? What Are Its Infrastructure Requirements?

October 29, 2011 by Rod Adams
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Guest post by Andy DawsonOne anti-nuclear argument that’s frequently made is that nuclear is slow to deploy – that renewables can make inroads into carbon production rather faster than can building new nuclear stations. I was recently proiked into taking a look at this, in the context of the UK’s 2020 and 2030 CO2 and Renewables targets... [read more]

Some Logic Still Prevails – Cape Wind Loan Guarantee On Hold

May 16, 2011 by Rod Adams
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The famous project to install 130 massive industrial wind turbines in the Nantucket Sound off of the coast of Massachusetts has hit another stumbling block. Financing for the project was dependent on approval of an application for a large Department of Energy loan guarantee, but the project has been notified that their application is no... [read more]

Is Canadian Wind Energy Association turning its back on offshore wind?

February 17, 2011 by Tyler Hamilton
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I find it surprising that just a week after the Ontario government flip-flopped on offshore wind the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) has the nerve to put out a flattering press release praising the government for a commitment to wind energy that “strengthens investor confidence.” Somebody is brown-nosing here. Apparently... [read more]

US Gears Up for Offshore Wind Energy

November 27, 2010 by Vicky Portwain
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This week saw US politicians taking action to encourage offshore wind energy along the US Atlantic Coast. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced a new initiative dubbed ‘Smart from the Start’ with the purpose of selecting the best sites for offshore wind farms. The initiative is based on regulatory change designed to speed up... [read more]

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America moves a step closer to its first offshore wind farm

November 23, 2010 by James Cartledge
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The race to get America’s first offshore wind farm up and running continues, with Massachusetts beginning to cement its leading position. The state’s Cape Wind project received a partial green light yesterday for its 15-year power purchase agreement with National Grid, although one of the two proposed contracts was rejected by the... [read more]

UK Offshore Wind Ambition Steps Forward

November 19, 2010 by Vicky Portwain
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The UK electricity regulator has this week launched a tender for offshore wind farm grid connections. The move takes the UK’s offshore wind energy ambitions a step further towards delivery. Transmission links to 2.8 Gigawatts of offshore wind farms are to be put out to competitive tender with the winning bidders to be announced in... [read more]

Prime Minister Confirms Offshore Wind Energy Fund

October 25, 2010 by Vicky Portwain
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Prime Minister David Cameron has confirmed today that the government will not cut the port infrastructure fund designed to help bring on stream facilities for offshore wind energy around the UK. David Cameron said “We need thousands of offshore turbines in the next decade and beyond… To help secure private sector investment in this... [read more]

Natural gas, helium, offshore wind power, and cap-and-trade design issues

October 14, 2010 by Michael Giberson
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A handful of stories of interest: The boom in shale gas has been a boon to homeowners who use gas, local economies with the resource, and manufacturers who make stuff with it, but it has “upended the ambitious growth plans of companies that produce power from wind, nuclear energy and coal. Those plans were based on the assumption that... [read more]

Google and the Mid-Atlantic Bight

October 13, 2010 by Jonathan Smith
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The Internet is abuzz with the news that Google is investing in a 350-mile, $5 Billion, Wind Power ‘Backbone’. Brooklyn Treehugger Brian Merchant reports that Google is taking 37.5% of the equity in future offshore wind farms along the East Coast, from New York City to southern Virginia, with 6,000 megawatts electrical capacity. As in... [read more]

Google’s Atlantic coast wind deal

October 12, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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The U.S. offshore wind industry got a boost last week when Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signed the lease for Cape Wind. Today brings word of a big new project that also could help jump-start the industry–a 350-mile offshore transmission line, running about 10 to 15 miles off the Atlantic coast from New Jersey to Virginia. The Atlantic... [read more]

Google Planning to Help West Virginia Coal Pretend to be Off-Shore Wind

October 12, 2010 by Rod Adams
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There is an article in the October 12, 2010 issue of the New York Times titled Offshore Wind Power Line Wins Praise, and Backing. In that article, Matthew Wald describes an announcement by by Google and a New York financial firm named Good Energies indicating plans to build an undersea cable along the eastern seaboard of the United... [read more]

US offshore wind assessment

October 7, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
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EERE News: DOE Releases Comprehensive Report on Offshore Wind Power in the United States: U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today the release of a report from the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which comprehensively analyzes the key factors impacting the deployment of offshore wind power in... [read more]

German Companies Join Forces to Build UK Offshore Wind Farm

June 20, 2010 by Vicky Portwain
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German utility company Stadtwerke München (SWM) has bought a 30% stake in RWE Innogy’s Liverpool Bay wind farm Gwynt Y Mor. According to industry sources, the company has been looking for a finance partner to share the £2bn offshore wind investment required for well over a year. Wind turbine manufacturer Siemens has also bought a... [read more]