...This is a project to be proud of at so many levels. It will attract tourists. It will set a positive precedent, nationally and globally, on environmental policy and action.
-- Joy Lapseritis, Falmouth resident & marine biologist
The project will be decommissioned. The U.S. Department of Interior's Lease to Cape Wind stipulates requirements that Cape Wind ongoingly provide funds to a decommissioning financial instrument that will pay for the costs of removing the project at the end of its economic useful life.
Cape Wind has received a commercial lease to operate for 25 years from the U.S. Department of Interior which is consistent with the rated life of offshore wind turbines.