The company behind North America's first offshore wind farm this week announced plans to introduce offshore wind turbines to Massachusetts.
If Gulf state regulators wish deep water wind power to build a massive wind farm in the waters between Massachusetts and Rhode Island, the emerging wind power industry may eventually break the 24-square-
16 years ago, the mile project was first proposed at Cape Cod.
For a long time, people who are skeptical about renewable energy have been using the failure of Cape Town as proof that turbines are too expensive, too dangerous, too unpopular to be the top power source in the country. Rhode Island-
Based on the deep water wind has successfully won five
The wind turbine wind farm on Block Island, which started generating electricity in last November, started and operated.
It is also built or approved for farms in New York and Maryland.
Now, the company plans to submit a formal bid next year to build its fourth wind farm off the southern coast of Massachusetts.
Called the revolutionary wind-a heavy
In a country culturally obsessed with colonial history, the turbine is mentioned-the proposed project will have 144 MW of electricity --
Production capacity, with the option of a larger 96 W with 288 MW or smaller.
The company plans to pair the turbine with a 40 MW generator
An hour Tesla battery storage system, when the wind blows but the lights are getting less and less, it collects excess energy late at night and deploys it during peak hours of the day, providing the reliability provided by burning fossil fuels. “This battery-
Deep Sea Wind Power CEO Jeff griboski told Huffington Post over the phone: "Offshore wind power combination, we are already pairing batteries with solar and some batteries with onshore wind.
"But here we put forward the biggest offshore wind power generation.
Battery combinations in the world.
It's an ambitious plan, especially in Massachusetts.
Cape Wind, after applying for its first permit in 2001, failed to build a project of the same name as it, marking the plight of the renewable energy industry and setting back the offshore industry for years, even if wind turbines spread off the coast of Europe and East Asia.
Cape winds are trying to install 130 turbines at a part of the Horseshoe Shoal in the South takete Strait.
This raised opposition from wealthy people like Kennedy and Koch who had surnames who did not want windmills to get in the way of their seaside landscape.
Environmental activists are also worried that noise from buildings can interfere with migrating whales and that blades can kill seabirds.
The winds of revolution are likely to attract similar attention.
"The question in our hearts is whether these things are done in a way that exercises responsible resource protection," said Jeff Ruch, executive director of public employees responsible for environmental responsibility, the company successfully sued Cape Wind for violating the Endangered Species Act.
"In the case of Cape Wind, it is in the middle of an important flight route and there will be Cuisinart-
Many important birds.
"Piling up at the bottom of offshore turbines can produce a lot of noise, disrupting fish and marine mammals, but deep water wind works closely with whale surveyors and wildlife officials, to avoid destroying migrating organisms when building Block Island wind farms last year.
However, a 2014 review of the study published in the journal Environmental Research Express found that the noise from completed turbines is still relatively low.
According to a study by the 99% Scottish government, although some seabirds collided with turbines, 2014 of seabirds "avoided ".
To calm down from well-
Grybowski said the company plans to build revolutionary winds 30 miles off the coast, about two to three times the Cape Wind proposed project.
"We are building a project in the middle of the ocean, not a place like Cape Wind, in the middle of the sound," he said . ".
"This is a project that can avoid controversy.
"Another advantage of deep water wind comes from how it sells the project.
This year, as part of the Republican government, Massachusetts made two demands-one for general clean energy and the other for offshore wind power.
Charlie Baker is pushing climate cuts
Change emissions.
The year-long construction of the Revolution Wind will begin in 2022, and the project can meet the needs of 10% outlined by the state.
It could also increase the employment of struggling sailors in the region.
Over-fishing and climate change have led to a sharp drop in the number of cod in New England, forcing federal regulators to slash annual fishing quotas.
Fishing work has disappeared.
Skills such as pulling the net and sorting fresh catches may not be transferred to work on offshore wind turbines, but the company plans to build a maintenance facility in New Bedford, griboski said, A fishing center about 60 miles south of Boston, he wants workers to have experience on the water.
"There will be hundreds of people in New Bedford who will be hired through construction or for a long time --
Regular maintenance, "said Grybowski.
"We need captains, companions, people who work outdoors and get into the water.
Nowadays, people in the fishing industry are ideal for such jobs.
Keegan Kruger in London said: "In the UK, where wind is booming at sea, the marine industry is attracting new funding and attention
Wind energy analyst at data firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
But he said most workers came from the offshore oil and gas industry.
For example, deep-water wind turbines are built on the basis of the re-use of offshore oil drilling platforms.
"There has been a recovery in port infrastructure investment, the establishment of apprenticeship and training colleges," he told Huffington Post . ".
At present, deep water wind power is still the main offshore wind power developer in the United States.
Government of Norway, December
The state-owned oil company, Norway National Petroleum Corporation, received $42.
5 million offered to lease 79,350 acres of federal waters off the Long Island coast.
Danish Wind Energy giant DONG Energy and Bay State Wind, a joint venture with a local company, are also moving in the direction of construction in the waters of Massachusetts.
Block Island Farm in Deepwater Wind has closed diesel at the resort
Refuel the power station this year.
Now the company is doing a 90-
The megawatt project, known as the South Fork wind farm, located 30 miles southeast of Montauk, New York, plans to start providing electricity to Long Island utility customers in 2022.
In Maryland, the company signed a contract with the Skipjack Wind Farm, which will be completed in 2022.
The fourth place will be the wind of revolution.
According to Bloomberg New Energy financial data, offshore wind power will provide 17,575 MW worldwide this year, 14,740 MW in Europe, 2,805 MW in Asia and 30 MW in North America, thanks to the Block Island wind farm.
But the industry has huge potential.
The wind on the American coast. S.
It can generate 4,223 gigawatts of electricity-four times the electricity currently produced by all energy sources in the country, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's 2012 study.
Therefore, the ghost of Cape Wind may not bother the United StatesS.
For a long time, the wind industry.
"Ten years ago, they actually put in onshore turbines at sea," Kruger said . ".
"It's completely changed now.
First and foremost, it was a marine sector before it became a wind sector.
Things are very, very different from the time.