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posted by janrinok on Friday May 25 2018, @06:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the blowing-hot-and-cold dept.

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Massachusetts and Rhode Island both awarded major offshore wind contracts on Wednesday, underscoring the increasing economic viability of a kind of renewable energy that has been long considered too expensive.

The Massachusetts installation will have a capacity of 800MW. Situated 14 miles off Martha's Vineyard, the wind farm will be called "Vineyard Wind," and it has an accelerated timetable: it's due to start sending electricity back to the grid as soon as 2021. According to Greentech Media, the contract was won by Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, both companies with headquarters in Europe. The two share 50/50 ownership of the project and beat Deepwater Wind and Bay State Wind in the bidding.

Massachusetts recently approved an ambitious goal to build 1.6GW of wind energy capacity off its coast by 2027. This new contract gets the state half of the way there. According to a press release from Vineyard Wind, the owners of the project will now begin negotiations for transmission services and power purchase agreements. The press release added that the project "will reduce Massachusetts' carbon emissions by over 1.6 million tons per year, the equivalent of removing 325,000 cars from state roads."

[...] The second major contract awarded on Wednesday came from the state of Rhode Island, and it went to Deepwater Wind. Deepwater Wind built the US' first offshore wind installation ever, a six-turbine, 30MW installation off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/america-your-offshore-wind-is-coming-1-2-gw-in-contracts-awarded/


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 26 2018, @11:12PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 26 2018, @11:12PM (#684689)

    Showing how stupid you are once again, eh?

    It has been mentioned here multiple times that cats and windows are orders of magnitude more significant.
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    just plain ugly

    ...and giant gold letters on buildings aren't just plain gaudy. /sarc

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  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday May 27 2018, @05:50AM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday May 27 2018, @05:50AM (#684773) Homepage Journal

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    You don't like cats. And many people don't like cats. But we don't have huge, ugly cat farms going up everywhere. Making property values drop tremendously. And you don't like buildings. That's OK. But the rest of us like buildings, we live in buildings. We make our living from buildings. And without buildings we'd have many problems. Wind farms, they're a big tax shelter for the elites. And they make VERY UNRELIABLE electric. It goes on, it goes off, nobody knows when it's coming on or going off. Very rough for our Energy Grid. It's not what we need. We need electric that's on all the time. Every day, every night. Look what happened in Puerto Rico. The hurricanes came, suddenly there's no electric. And there's still no electric. With coal, with nuclear, very easy to store the fuel. And so many times, there's room for 90 days of fuel. Right there at the plant. So when the hurricanes come, the lights stay on. Because you don't run out of fuel. And I said, let's have a subsidy for our great coal & nuclear power plants. For the ones that can keep 90 days of fuel. So we don't have any more Puerto Ricos. I asked my FERC for a subsidy, they told me "no." Every single one voted "no" on that. So I need to get a totally new FERC. It's going to take a while. But I'm working hard for you. And I always, always win in the end.

    Wind, oh does it kill the birds. Scotland, they had a very rare & beautiful bird. The White-throated Needletail. Very rare to see one in Britain. For 22 years, nobody saw one. Then somebody saw it! And so many bird watchers came to see it. They saw it die. Killed STONE DEAD by a wind turbine!!! foxnews.com/world/2013/06/28/birdwatchers-flock-to-see-rare-bird-then-watch-it-killed-by-wind-turbine.html [foxnews.com]