The United States and Offshore Wind Power

The United States and Offshore Wind Power
Why is it, when other countries, such as Belgium, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Germany, have built massive turbine farms off their coastlines in the past few decades, the United States has no operational offshore wind farms? The US clearly embraces wind and has a plethora of onshore wind farms sprinkled all over its states. Look… Read the rest

Cape Wind, Nantucket Sound: Latest Developments

Cape Wind, Nantucket Sound: Latest Developments
The much delayed huge offshore wind farm off Nantucket Sound; Cape Wind, moved a step closer to being constructed after a ruling by a US federal court on Wednesday. The US Court of Appeals upheld the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) 2012 determination that the proposed 130-turbine Cape Wind offshore wind farm proposed for Nantucket Sound, south… Read the rest

United States Chooses Turbines for First Offshore Wind Farm

United States Chooses Turbines for First Offshore Wind Farm
The award of the lucrative contract to supply the United States’ first offshore wind farm has been eagerly anticipated.  It was announced in a supply and maintenance contract announced just before Christmas. It will be for the huge Cape Wind wind farm located on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound,  off of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. And the… Read the rest