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New York Gov. Cuomo Calls for America's Largest Offshore Wind Farm, Proposes 2.4GW by 2030

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday January 12 2017, @03:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the where-is-my-jetpack? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, for example, has just called on the Long Island Power Authority to approve a 90 megawatt offshore wind project 30 miles southeast of Montauk (out of sight of the Long Island beachfront), and he's also proposing a commitment to an impressive 2.4 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030. As reported previously, a separate 800 megawatt offshore wind plant is due to be developed 17 miles south of the Rockaway Peninsular, and Norwegian oil giant Statoil recently shifted its investments from tar sands in order to win the auction to lease it for development.

All of this and more will be part of Governor Cuomo's push for an Offshore Wind Master Plan, which is slated to be completed by 2030 at the latest. Of course, there's a large elephant in the room in terms of the famously wind-skeptic (hostile?) President Elect Donald Trump, but Governor Cuomo's announcement suggests that states will continue to push things forward even if the federal government doesn't.

New York should learn from the fight over the Cape Cod offshore wind farm and push coal-fired plants first, with the offshore windfarm as a compromise.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 12 2017, @05:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 12 2017, @05:35AM (#452846)

    Can I be a wind farmer and feed my family by installing windmills in my backyard? Fuck no I can't! The means of production must be owned by giant corporations and no one else!! It is your duty as a consumer to support the corporations!!!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 12 2017, @08:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 12 2017, @08:51AM (#452881)

    Can I be a wind farmer and feed my family by installing windmills in my backyard? Fuck no I can't!

    That all depends on your local ordinances and regulations. But rage on little buddy.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 12 2017, @08:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 12 2017, @08:22PM (#453046)

    Yeah I'm all amped up to dig myself some coal RIGHT NOW.