cape wind posts, articles, and infographics

Dwarfing Cape Wind with a Patriot-sized wind farm

February 6, 2012 by Rich Maltzman
with 169 views

Take a look at the two areas above. The top one represents Cape Wind, about which we’ve posted several times. Now, a new area has been set aside for a wind farm which, according to a story in today’s Boston Globe, “could produce as much as 4,000 megawatts, 10 times as much electricity as the proposed Cape Wind project, which is slated to... [read more]

Overcoming Hurdles to Clean Energy Commercialization

November 21, 2011 by David Levy
with 189 views

Despite the mounting evidence of severe climate change, there is a funding crisis for potential solutions. The Department of Energy released data at the beginning of November showing that global emissions of CO2 rose 6% in 2010, despite the ongoing economic recession. This trajectory is higher than the worst case projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in it’s 2007 Fourth Assessement Report. The impacts are already being felt. A new IPCC report concludes that climate change is causing more extreme weather, especially heat waves, heavy precipitation, and coastal flooding (though the super-cautious IPCC hedged on hurricanes). [read more]

Is NIMBYism a Threat to Small-Scale Renewables?

October 20, 2011 by Silvio Marcacci
with 348 views

The Raging Grannies

Recent polling said 63 percent of Americans support renewable energy investment…in theory. But in practice, Not-In-My-Backyard (NIMBY) opposition to new energy infrastructure prevents about 45 percent of renewable energy proposals from being built across the country, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. NIMBY opposition to utility-scale renewable energy projects is well-known, like the Cape Wind offshore wind project in Massachusetts, which took nine years to obtain permits because of opposition from local residents. But what about small-scale renewables – does NIMBYism threaten them as well? [read more]

Texas Offshore Wind Energy Project Poised to be 'First in the Water'

June 9, 2011 by Jesse Jenkins
with 2,805 views

Texan wind energy developer poised to construct first U.S. offshore wind turbine, even as policy uncertainty and tricky project financing harries competing projectsWith some five gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind energy projects in the works, the long-promised dawn of offshore wind in America could be at hand. And although the most... [read more]

Some Logic Still Prevails – Cape Wind Loan Guarantee On Hold

May 16, 2011 by Rod Adams
with 734 views

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]

The more things change...

April 21, 2011 by Alex Trembath
with 116 views

...the more they stay the same. In the year since I started this blog, we've witnessed many substantial changes, events, and progressions on the energy/climate frontier. And yet, on the whole, it seems American policy hasn't evolved much at all. Three examples illustrate this frustrating truth*.As you may have heard, this week is the one... [read more]

Cape Wind's Search for Buyers: The Green Skeptic on FOX Business

December 21, 2010 by Scott Edward Anderson
with 733 views

This morning I spoke with Stuart Varney and Company about the Cape Wind project. Cape Wind is proposing America's first offshore wind farm on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound. Miles from the nearest shore, 130 wind turbines will harness the wind to produce up to 420 megawatts of clean, renewable energy. The developer has sealed a... [read more]

America moves a step closer to its first offshore wind farm

November 23, 2010 by James Cartledge
with 1,170 views

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]

National Grid To Purchase Clean Power From Cape Wind

May 10, 2010 by Michael Davidson
with 175 views

National Grid has said that it will buy clean power from Cape Wind, US' first large-scale, off-shore wind farm, which is expected to come online by the end of 2012. Both the companies will file a contract with the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) for the power purchase agreement. The contract will be filed under the... [read more]

Wind power: Clean energy solution of the month

May 7, 2010 by Joseph Romm
with 243 views

Our favorite climate de-crocker, Peter Sinclair has now started putting together videos on clean energy solutions. Here’s his latest: Wind Power is truly a core climate (and peak oil) solution. If you want to know more, here’s where to start: Wind Power — A core climate solution NREL: US has three times... [read more]

April Top Ten Players In Green Energy

May 6, 2010 by Terrence Murray
with 408 views

1: Cape Wind The 420-megawatt Cape Wind project is big, but the expectations for it are even bigger. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who just last week announced approval for the project amidst some stiff opposition, expects the Nantucket Sound wind farm to do no less than prove the viability of offshore wind in... [read more]

Cape Wind: Never Again

May 4, 2010 by Breakthrough Institute
with 367 views

Al Gore has called on the U.S. to "commit to producing 100% of electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon free sources within ten years." But the ten-year hard-fought battle to secure approval for Cape Wind shows that we cannot come close to meeting even a fraction of his goal if we do not appreciate the scale of energy... [read more]

Shaving away at our fossil foolish addictions … some thoughts

May 3, 2010 by A Siegel
with 181 views

With the quite stark contrast between the Department of Interior’s go-ahead to offshore wind turbines (Cape Wind) and the worsening disaster of ever more oil coming over the Horizon from the Deepwater (e.g, Deepwater Horizon’s explosion and resulting dumping of untold amounts of oil into the Gulf of Mexico), people are turning to the... [read more]

Two Coasts Tell Tale of Where We Are

April 30, 2010 by Scott Edward Anderson
with 215 views

What happened on two coasts in the US the past two weeks speaks to our energy reality. The two coasts tell us where we are. Both events illustrate the conundrum in which we find ourselves early in the 21st Century and very early in the transition from one primary fuel source to the next. First the good news: Consent was given by US... [read more]

Energy from All Around Us

April 29, 2010 by Geoffrey Styles
with 217 views

It's somewhat ironic that the long-awaited approval of the Cape Wind offshore wind project by the Department of Interior (DOI) should come in the same week that the nation's attention is focused on the problems of another, more traditional offshore energy project. Although the renewable electricity from the former scarcely substitutes... [read more]