Garden State Offshore Energy was award the rights to build a wind farm Friday Night. These wind farms would be located roughly 16 to 20 miles off the coasts of Atlantic and Ocean counties. The wind farm would be able to produce up to 346 megawatts from 96 turbines. Garden State Offshore Energy now needs to get permits to build the wind farm from state and federal agencies. They will also need commitments from manufacturers to build the actual turbines. Prior to this, both Delaware and Rhode Island passed decisions to let offshore wind farms be built. Now with New Jersey also getting closer to having wind farms be built, could New York be next? There are talks of projects off Long Island and New York City.
This really impresses me that all these states are finally supporting renewable energy sources, I just hope it's not too late.
Source: The New York Times
Monday, October 6, 2008
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