US’s First Offshore Wind Plant Advances
Posted in Energy on Jan 6th, 2009
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has approved the construction of undersea cables to allow the country’s first offshore wind-generated power plant to transmit electricity to the mainland.
The planned Cape Wind project would consist of 130 247-foot-tall wind turbines roughly 5 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. A handful of local, state and federal [...]