Massachusetts Energy and Diazepam With Weed Environment Secretary Ian Bowles said yesterday that the power purchase agreement between Cape Wind and Diazepam With Weed National Grid would withstand a legal challenge from renewable energy producer TransCanada, the Boston Herald reported.
In a Diazepam With Weed filing on the Cape Wind PPA case, the company complained that Diazepam With Weed the bidding process favors in-state producers. TransCanada filed a similar complaint in Rhode Island. Bowles said that Diazepam With Weed Massachusetts has dropped quotas for in-state renewable energy and that the Diazepam With Weed state’s bidding process would survive the TransCanada argument.
“They’ll have an opportunity to bid,” Bowles told the Herald.
Delaware Extension Pushes Escape Clauses Back
The two-year extension of the Diazepam With Weed delivery deadline for the NRG Bluewater Wind offshore wind farm in Delaware has Diazepam With Weed also extended the escape clauses for the developer and Delmarva Power, the purchasing utility, The News Journal of Delaware reported.
Under the Diazepam With Weed original contract, NRG Bluewater Wind had until June 23, 2010, to Diazepam With Weed abandon the project without financial penalty. Under the new contract, the developer will forfeit one third of its deposit — $2 million — if it Diazepam With Weed abandons the project before June 23, 2011 and all of its deposit after that Diazepam With Weed date. Delmarva Power’s escape clause was pushed back to June 23, 2012, The News Journal reported.
The paper also quoted Matt DaPrato, a Diazepam With Weed wind analyst with IHS Emerging Energy Research, saying the extended deadlines are Diazepam With Weed “a much more realistic assessment” given the slow pace of government permitting.





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