The first offshore wind farm in the United States has been approved for off the coast of Cape Cod, according to this article in the NYT. "The Cape Wind turbines would lie in Nantucket Sound, about five miles from the nearest shoreline, and cover 24 square miles, roughly the size of Manhattan. The tip of the highest blade of each turbine would reach 440 feet above the water." Interesting ... and, congratulations!
This is interesting. The NYT has an article looking at one possible solution to the problem of intermittent wind power generation: "One proposed solution to the intermittency problem is to tie many wind farms together with a transmission line — making an electric grid, as it were, consisting of wind turbines. Now, Willett Kempton of the Center for Carbon-free Power Integration at the University of Delaware and colleagues have shown how this 'all-for-one' approach might work with offshore wind farms along the Eastern Seaboard."
The Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) approved several large-scale wind farm projects yesterday, according to these press releases (Buckeye Wind Project, JW Great Lakes Wind, and Hardin Wind Energy Project). Copies of the decisions in these cases can be found here.
Congratulations to all!
[Disclosure: Vorys represented Buckeye Wind LLC.]
The NYT has an article on the challenges for expanding U.S. wind power generation, including a push for American jobs, rather than sending jobs to China; and low prices for competitive fuels such as natural gas.
The NYT has an article on locating wind turbines for energy production miles off the coast on floating facilities. Very interesting.
The PA Department of Environmental Protection has announced that wind farms in two Pennsylvania counties will "receive funding under an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act program that provides cash assistance to energy production companies in place of earned tax credits." The two grants total over $100 million.
Wind farms may not be the energy panacea that we are looking for, according to this article in Examiner.com (Cleveland, Ohio). The problem - Impact on wildlife such as the Oklahoma prairie chicken.
The Washington Post is reporting that plans by T. Boone Pickens to construct the world's biggest wind farm in Texas - 4,000 megawatts at a projected cost of $10 billion - has been put on hold due to tight credit markets and low natural gas prices.
The Vermont Supreme Court has upheld a decision by the state Public Service Board issuing a certificate of public good for a 16-turbine wind project, according to this article in the Times Argus.
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