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Business/Finance See other Business/Finance Articles Title: America Is Finally Getting Serious About Offshore Wind Yahoo... Eighteen miles off the coast of Rhode Island, the first offshore wind farm in the United States is finally under construction—seven years after it was originally proposed. Deepwater Wind will initially install five turbines, which the company expects to be operational by the end of 2016. The wind farm will generate enough electricity to power 17,000 homes. That’s not going to make a big dent in even the smallest state’s power supply, but it is a positive shift for the country’s oft-troubled offshore wind energy industry. Compared with Europe’s 2,300-plus turbines and their 29 million megawatt-hours of energy production a year, it’s clear the U.S. isn’t leading the field in offshore renewable energy. But it’s not for a lack of trying. According to the American Wind Energy Association, there are 11 offshore projects in various stages of development in 10 states. Boston-based Cape Wind is planning to build one of the biggest wind farms, a 130-turbine project off the coast of Massachusetts. But financing issues and protests from residents delayed the start of construction for years. Still, 2016 could be the year of wind for the United States. “Once Deepwater Wind’s project gets built, that will be an important inflection point,” Kit Kennedy, a renewable energy expert at the National Resources Defense Council, told The Associated Press. “We will have a solid framework in place for leasing and siting offshore wind projects, and we’re going to see this industry move forward now.” Deepwater has bigger plans in the works, with a 200-turbine farm planned in the 742,000-acre Massachusetts Wind Energy Area marked by federal officials for offshore wind farm development. If the area is ever fully developed, it could produce enough electricity to power 1.4 million homes. But there’s a lot of ground to make up if the U.S. hopes to catch up to Europe on the wind front. Europe’s total wind-powered energy production now supplies more than 10 percent of the continent’s energy demand. Related stories on TakePart: • Wind Power Blows Away Coal and Gas as Europe’s Cheapest Energy Source • Wave Power Could Supply Half the U.S. With Cheap Electricity—Here’s Why It Doesn't • Scotland Takes Lead in Race for the World’s First Fossil-Fuel-Free Electric Grid Original article from TakePart Poster Comment: http://news.yahoo.com/america-finally-getting-serious-offshore-wind-191812350.html J. Paul There is no reason that a bidder on Federal Wind Leases off shore should have to put up with lawsuits from every NIMBY that can scarp together a lawsuit filing fee. Once leased, the Federal Government should be held liable for the useability of the area for the purpose it was leased for. If some wingnut anti-human everything comes to court, they should be required to prove an imminent personal injury of a real, direct & substantial nature and secure a bond in the amount of any potential lose from a delay should they lose. Likewise the Attorney submitting the case, should be held liable for any delays cause be any lost case and have his license tp practice and that of his firm and all firm partners revoked should any case be found to be without merit. Cape Wind faile for only one reason. Frivolous Lawsuits practiced for the sole reason of frustrating the project into non-existence. Legal wars of attrition should be punished in the harshest ways possible against perpetrating lawyers.12 Tidal Man Very interesting J. Paul. Perhaps the very same standards should be applied to desalination plants on the west coast. Some of those plants have been on the drawing board for twenty years. Now that there is a drought, people are beginning to think twice about unfettered interference designed to bankrupt 5-1 J. Paul I Couldn't agree more. Off Shore (Beyond 3 mile state jurisdiction) Floating Desal plants w/ Nuclear Ships. That way the power plant co-gens w/ Desal and the utility can call for either or any % of both. Plus-if the Drought ends (yeah right) the shipss could simply sail off, being re-deployed to another population that was idiotic enough to build in a desert.4-1 Ethan This is the best, most sensible comment that I have ever read on yahoo. I live in AK and our state, after having weathered the last recession relatively well is in dire financial trouble due to frivilous lawsuits by the anti human Eco crowd regarding our vast, safely acesable oil reserves. I am a commercial fisherman and would be the first to oppose drilling on land or offshore if I thought that there was any significant risk to salmon habitat (which includes pretty much all bodies of fresh or salt water) I don't believe that there are. Our state has been absolutely hamstrung by anti everything groups like greenpeace. These terrorists need to be held accountable for the dammage that they have done to our economy and their continuous acts of high seas piracy.-1 stumpedII what damage the fossel fuel industries have done to this nation is incalculable. keeping us in the energy stone age for their own personal profit. This is second only to the damge the bush family has done to this country. they should all be arrested.. investigated.. tried .. and punished. 1-5 Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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