On June 23, 2009, the Minerals Management Service, a division within the U.S. Department of Interior, issued five limited leases to offshore wind energy developers for wind data collection on the Outer Continental Shelf. These leases will allow for the construction of meteorological towers to collect site-specific data on wind speed, intensity, and direction. The data collected under
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Rhode Island Legislation Proposed to Move Offshore Wind Forward
By Katherine A. Roek on
Posted in Wind
Rhode Island has introduced legislation to encourage offshore wind development. Under the draft bill, the state’s largest electricity supplier, National Grid, would be required to purchase the energy output from an offshore wind project proposed by the state’s selected preferred offshore wind developer, Deepwater Wind. National Grid has said that it supports the proposal…