As the first shallow water offshore project under review in the United States, utility-scale projects like Cape Wind are important to our national interest and a critical first step to building a domestic, globally competitive wind industry. Success in the project could also lay the foundation for a focused national investment to develop offshore wind technology in the coming years.
-- David Garman, U.S. Undersecretary of Energy
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Cape Wind: Weeks Away from Approval? Thursday, November 19, 2009
By: Yoni Cohen on November 17
Eight long years after Energy Management Inc. (EMI) began the permitting process for Cape Wind, its proposed billion-dollar wind farm offshore from Cape Cod, the Massachusetts project may be in sight of final approval. In early November, United States Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said that he hoped his agency would make a final decision on Cape Wind by the end of the year. Then, Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey urged Salazar to further expedite the review process and approve the construction of 130 wind turbines in Nantucket Sound before next month’s international climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.