...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.
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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.

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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.

Wind War won, Clean Power Now to withdraw troops from field
Nothing left for 12,000 member grassroots organization to accomplish

By Walter Brooks

Clean 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.
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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.
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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.”
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Click here to read Bloomberg article in Business Week

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’.

Letter by Yarmouthport resident Jim Liedell published in the Cape Cod Times, 12/9/11.

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."
Note: Click here to read the entire column by James Freeman in the Cape Cod Times