Attorney General Martha Coakley yesterday urged state regulators to approve National Grid’s contract to purchase electricity from the offshore energy project Cape Wind, after she got the two companies to agree to a nearly 10 percent reduction in the price of the wind power.

...The altered deal, which Coakley described as “in the public interest,’’ still needs to be approved by the Department of Public Utilities.

Under the revised contract, National Grid electricity customers who use an average of 600 kilowatt hours of power a month would pay just under $1.50 more on their electric bills in 2013, when the contract begins, according to estimates provided by the utility. That’s about 40 cents less than what the original contract would have cost.

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July 30, 2010 Falmouth Enterprise article, reprinted in its entirety here, with permission.

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Click here to view Boston Globe video interviews of business leaders discussing Cape Wind at a Progressive Business Leaders Network event

On the same day the federal government was sued for its opinion that the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm will not hurt endangered species, New England's largest conservation organization released its most emphatic statement to date backing the project.

Massachusetts Audubon Society, which has long voiced conditional support for Cape Wind's plan to build 130 wind turbines in the Sound, announced Friday that the government and the project's developer have met a call the society issued in 2006 for more environmental data before the project is built.
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Click here to read the statement from the Mass Audubon Society on Cape Wind

...Bridgewater residents and business owners who spoke to a Times reporter before yesterday's hearing said the premium cost of Cape Wind electricity would be acceptable if it led to more stable prices in the long term and less dependency on oil.

"That would be worth it, as long as the fee is minimal," said Frank Doyle, as he waited for an order at Cape Cod Cafe on Winter Street.  Doyle, who is a National Grid customer and said he did not feel strongly one way or the other about climate change, argued that the stable rates Cape Wind could provide over the long term make the project desirable.

"It's supposed to be good for the environment," said Scott Bena, owner of Yankee Clipper Barber Shop on Broad Street.  Bena said he pays about $50 a month to keep the lights on in his small shop and about $200 for his home, and he wouldn't mind paying a few dollars more a month for energy from Cape Wind.
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Wind energy along Atlantic seaboard won't need long, expensive transmission lines to supply cities with electric power

WASHINGTON—If Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s proposed advances for siting offshore windmills are as sleek, transparent and finely tuned as promised, then Cape Wind in Massachusetts won’t be a solo act for too long.
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Your support for Cape Wind has always been crucial, it helped the project secure its approvals and now we ask for your support once again. To make America’s first offshore wind farm a reality here in Massachusetts, we ask that you also voice your support for Cape Wind’s power purchase contracts that National Grid has filed with the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities.

Approval of these contracts is crucial for Cape Wind to secure project finance that will make real all of the important project benefits of new jobs, cleaner air, greater energy independence and establishing Massachusetts as a global clean offshore energy leader.

Click here to view the BBC World segment on Cape Wind that aired worldwide on May 14, 2010

Excerpt from the press conference streaming from the Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, 4/28/2010.