Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:57:12 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/ Cape Wind News en-us http://www.capewind.org/images/logo.gif http://www.capewind.org/ nate@ecape.com http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1234 ...In Massachusetts, the Cape Wind project that would bring a wind farm to Nantucket Sound stalled for nine years before it was finally approved in 2010. It recently cleared a hurdle when a court upheld a contract with National Grid for purchase of half its electricity. That should make it easier to sell more power and raise money to build the project, said Mark Rodgers, a spokesman for the company. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:57:12 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1233 Global investment in clean energy hit a record $260 billion in 2011, up 5 percent from the previous year as investment in solar grew by more than a third despite shrinking profit margins, some bankruptcies and flagging share prices, a report said. The United States last year regained its title as the top country for clean energy investment, beating out China for the first time since 2008, said a report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) on Thursday. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:59:32 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1232 Click here to view an interview of Cape Wind President Jim Gordon by VB at Fox 25 Boston -- Gordon explains how the SJC decision to uphold the approval of the Cape Wind contract with National Grid helps propel the project forward. Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:33:56 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1231 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:22:40 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1230 Wind War won, Clean Power Now to withdraw troops from fieldNothing left for 12,000 member grassroots organization to accomplishBy Walter BrooksClean Power Now, that grassroots group of Cape Wind supporters here on Cape Cod and the Islands, is disbanding now that the project has its approvals and lease. Apparently, it's hard to keep up the energy of the clean energy group when the fight seems to have been all but won. Clearly, they were there when it mattered most, countering what they viewed as misinformation being put forward by the opposition group and in helping give an organized voice to the majority of folks here who support this project at public hearings and with the media.This 'battle fatigue' can be seen with the opposition group too. They recently reported that the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound (APNS) ended the year 2010 nearly a million and a half dollars in debt, their donations just weren't keeping pace with their ongoing and increasing legal expenses. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:22:13 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1229 Maryland utilities Exelon and Contellation required to provide $32 Million to fund offshore wind power research and develop substantial amounts of reneweable energy in Maryland to create jobs in-state (instead of just importing it from other states) as part of a settement agreement in their merger case. Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:09:15 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1228 EON AG, Germany's biggest utility, will invest 7 billion euros ($9 billion) in renewable energy in the next five years as the country abandons nuclear power.EON plans to build at least three offshore wind projects, including the 1 billion-euro Amrumbank West farm in the German North Sea, the Dusseldorf-based company said today in an e- mailed statement. It's also investing in new power lines in northern Germany.“Renewables are a cornerstone of our strategy, and offshore wind is one of EON's growth areas,” Chief Executive Officer Johannes Teyssen said in the statement. “We intend to commission a new offshore wind farm every 18 months.” Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:40:10 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1227 Click here to read David Gessner’s column in NRDC’s OnEarth, ‘How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cape Wind’, a compelling conversion story from someone who feels a passionate connection to Cape Cod. Mr. Gessner is the author of eight books including ‘My Green Manifesto’ and ‘The Tarball Chronicles’. Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:38:13 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1226 Letter by Yarmouthport resident Jim Liedell published in the Cape Cod Times, 12/9/11. Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:11:47 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1225 Column by James Freeman in the Cape Cod Times, 12/5/11 ...Sitting with Gordon in his spartan Boston office recently is to see a man more willful than wistful. He has endured years of personal epithets, endless public meetings, political and judicial jostling and searing setbacks, but has steadfastly succeeded, in the face of poor odds, in nearly seeing the wind farm begin construction and, ultimately, generation. If operational, it presumably affects every Cape home and business.In jeans, tweed jacket and brown loafers, he is a study in comportment and contemplation, if not quiet confidence. If there is scar tissue, you wouldn't see it. "Ten years ago," he recalls, "we believed, compared to choosing fossil or nuclear generation, powering Cape Cod and the region with offshore wind was a compelling choice and today we still do." Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:02:51 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1224 Click here for link to Platts article Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:18:30 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1223 17 EU countries planning massive offshore wind, says EWEA As the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) opened the doors of its offshore wind event today, it published its latest report analysing all existing offshore wind power projects in 17 EU member states, mostly in north-western Europe. New offshore wind farms with a capacity of 5.6 GW are currently under construction in the UK, Germany and Belgium. Over 141 gigawatts (GW) [1 gigawatt is 1,000 megawatts] of offshore wind energy capacity is built, under construction, consented, or planned in Europe: enough to power 130 million average EU households, finds EWEA in its latest report entitled “'Wind in our Sails”. These wind farms - representing 35 times more capacity than the just under 4 GW installed today - would provide 13.1% of Europe's total electricity production. "There is huge developer interest in offshore wind energy across Europe", commented Arthouros Zervos, President of EWEA. "Developers, governments and investors realise that offshore wind energy offers the growth and jobs that Europe desperately needs."  169,000 jobs in the EU offshore wind energy sector are expected to be created by 2020, going up to 300,000 by 2030, according to the EWEA report. European companies are currently global leaders, with over 99% of the world's installed offshore capacity in European waters. Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:02:19 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1222 Click here to read a column by Dave Kent on Cape Cod Today on the opposition group to Cape Wind's staggering debt and about how the Boston Herald article about their finances got it so wrong Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:03:15 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1221 Opposition group to Cape Wind, 'Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound' 2010 financials just released, they ended the year $1.35 Million in debt, they had one of their lowest fundraising tallies on record, 67% coming from just 7 large donors. Their 2009 financials listed coal and oil magnate Bill Koch as directly paying the salary of the organization's CEO. Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:30:24 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1220 Boston Business Journal Op Ed by Cape Wind Communications Director Mark Rodgers Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:48:33 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1219 Click here to read this article in Cape Cod Today Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:37:06 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1218 China plans to increase the combined installed capacity of its offshore wind power sector to 5 gigawatts by 2015 and 30 gigawatts by 2020, with investments totaling 100 billion yuan, according to the recent national wind power meeting hosted by the National Energy Administration. Wind power is a type of new energy and also the fastest growing source power in the world, and offshore wind power represents today’s most advanced wind power generation technology. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:33:03 -0500 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1217 Cape Wind produced a new report today entitled, ‘Cape Wind & Massachusetts – Creating Jobs and Providing Clean Power to Massachusetts’.This new report details how Cape Wind can uniquely deliver large scale clean energy benefits to Massachusetts, create jobs and enhance energy security and reliability. Half of Cape Wind’s power has already been sold to Massachusetts electric consumers and Cape Wind plans to sell more of its power here to make the benefits of this project a reality and to establish Massachusetts as the U.S. leader in offshore wind power.You can download this 11-page report by clicking here. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:59:46 -0400 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1216 “The FAA has reviewed Cape Wind for eight years and repeatedly determined that Cape Wind did not pose a hazard to air navigation. The essence of today’s court ruling is that the FAA needs to better explain its Determination of No Hazard. We are confident that after the FAA does this, that their decision will stand and we do not foresee any impact on the project’s schedule in moving forward.  Really, today’s court decision doesn’t change things very much because our existing Determination of No Hazard (the 3rd we have received since we started with this project) was set to expire in just 90 days and we were going to have to re-apply at that time anyway, this lets us begin that process sooner.”-- Mark Rodgers, Communications Director, Cape Wind Click here to view a 2008 letter from the President of Cape Air stating that Cape Wind will “have no adverse impact on air transportation or navigation in the region”. Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:40:17 -0400 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1215 ...Renewables -- especially wind energy -- are injecting new optimism into Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, reflected in a word that often comes up in conversations with business and political leaders: "Reindustrialisierung" (re-industrialization).In a state with a sea-faring heritage, there are now more jobs in renewable energy than in shipyards: 6,000 jobs at 704 firms, expected to nearly quadruple to 22,000 by 2020.Companies are building, designing, maintaining and operating wind turbines and photovoltaic and biomass plants -- for which farmers are growing crops and harvesting animal waste. There are more than 1,200 wind turbines on land, and a new push into off-shore wind energy in the Baltic will further fuel that growth. Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:37:37 -0400 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1214 Cape Wind Associates, the company behind the 130-turbine wind farm to be built in Nantucket Sound, are urging Massachusetts regulators to require that a merger between NStar and Connecticut-based Northeast Utilities include a condition to buy 50 percent of the power generated by the offshore wind project.“Think big,’’ said Dennis Duffy, vice president of Cape Wind Associates, who last week filed a letter to the state Department of Public Utilities asking officials to make NStar and Northeast Utilities purchase “the remaining output of the CWA project.’’Other groups watching the case, including the state Department of Energy Resources and the nonprofit Conservation Law Foundation, made similar entreaties, asking regulators to compel the utility companies to enter a long-term contract to buy electricity from a wind farm. Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:58:20 -0400 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1213 ...The negative German prices on July 24 occurred on a day when winds averaged 15 mph in the northern state of Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania, home to many wind farms, Bloomberg weather data show. Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:52:34 -0400 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1212 ...In the first six months of 2011, 101 new offshore wind turbines totalling 348.1 MW were connected to the power grids of the U.K., Germany and Norway. Offshore wind farms worth some €8.5 billion ($11.4 billion) are currently under construction in European waters. Once completed, they will represent a total installed capacity of 2844 MW. Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:46:21 -0400 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1211 Statement by Cape Wind Communications Director Mark Rodgers in response to the Massachusetts Attorney General ruling that initiative petition #11-28 is unconstitutional:"We applaud the Attorney General for striking down as unconstitutional a ballot question being pushed by the coal and oil industry and waterfront mansion owners that would have devastated the clean energy industry in Massachusetts and taken away thousands of jobs." Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:00:56 -0400 http://www.capewind.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1210 It is the evidence proponents of offshore wind farms have been waiting for: a Dutch study has found that offshore wind turbines have "hardly any negative effects" on wildlife, and may even benefit animals living beneath the waves. Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:46:57 -0400