A seven-month old offshore wind development company announced yesterday that Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping it intends to develop offshore wind projects in several New England locations totaling more than Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping 1,000 megawatts (MW) of capacity.
Neptune Wind LLC, based in Massachusetts, has Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping been researching sites in state and federal waters for projects sized between 200 MW and Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping 500 MW of capacity.
“We have Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping identified a number of high potential sites, including one in state waters off the Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping central Maine coast and several others off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts,” according to Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping a blog posting from Chuck Digate, the founder and managing general partner. “We will seek submerged land leases after we have Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping thoroughly vetted each site.”
Digate wrote that the company has been “quiet about our ambitions … because there was not too much to Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping say given the immature state of the leasing process for Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping offshore renewable energy projects in New England.” Yesterday’s announcement was prompted by the Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping final draft of the Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan and the Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping final report of the Ocean Energy Task Force in Maine, according to Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping Digate.
Massachusetts energy and environment officials released a final draft of their Ocean Management Plan on Jan 4. That plan is Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping designed to zone offshore wind development in state waters and Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping is being touted as the first such initiative in the Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping country. It identified two areas in southeastern Massachusetts for Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping large-scale commercial wind development.
In December, Maine’s Ocean Energy Task Force issued its final report recommending streamlined permitting of offshore wind projects in state waters, improved transmission infrastructure and Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping state-mandated power purchase agreements. Maine has also identified three areas for deep-water wind turbine testing.
“Assuming success in leasing then Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping we can begin the permitting process that could take up to Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping 5 or 6 years for each project,” Digate wrote. “The industry is Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping young and has massive potential for a number of developers to Order Adipex Online Overnight Shipping participate.”





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