Sentences with phrase «offshore wind development»

The lease sale will allow interested development companies to bid on the rights to site assessment activities to gauge the suitability of the area for offshore wind development.

The socioeconomic consequences of offshore wind development are also being evaluated including space use conflicts, visual impacts, and associated economic effects.

And where offshore wind development has struggled in the past, the ocean is now open for business.

«Little progress has been made on offshore wind development in New Jersey despite a pledge from the previous administration to facilitate our growth of offshore wind,» Murphy said in a statement.

NYSERDA pursuing responsible offshore wind development with 20 studies being conducted in the state's quest to develop 2.4 gigawatts

«This is a great partnership between government, industry, and scientists to provide vital information for future offshore wind development decisions,» said BOEM Environmental Protection Specialist Dr. David Bigger.

Arup will also consider parallels with offshore wind development and identify and analyse opportunities for improved competitiveness of wave power with other marine renewables.

Revolution Wind will advance offshore wind development in Massachusetts by providing an avenue to launch the industry with an initial smaller - scale project, and then phase in larger projects.

There are so many unknowns about how the Trump administration will support offshore wind development that the industry is focusing almost solely on the progress it can make at the local level, Courtney said.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the federal regulator that oversees offshore wind development, announced plans to publish two major documents that close in on eventual offshore wind leasing.

State - controlled power group said to favour offshore wind development over continued leading role in nuclear programme

New York is also pursuing offshore wind development to achieve renewable energy targets.

The Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is looking to sell more offshore wind development zones facing Massachusetts later this year, and zones facing New York by the end of 2019 — two of the most enticing areas in the whole of the Americas for offshore wind given their proximity to major cities like New York and Boston, and their relatively shallow water depths.

In the U.S., a lack of consistent policy, Mandelstam said, «on the regulatory [side] and on the tax side,» has made offshore wind development «very challenging.»

Floating turbines may actually be a big part of future offshore wind development at the global level.

In the US however, thanks to the Great Lakes though, another area of potential offshore wind development exists sans saltwater.

The federal government has designated an 81,000 - acre area off of Long Island for possible commercial offshore wind development.

Department paperwork is a necessary step for much offshore wind development since waters more than three miles offshore are under federal jurisdiction.

Rogers said the Trump administration could also influence future offshore wind development by attracting investors or driving them away.

The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), which manages wind resources off the U.S. coast, held the country's largest offshore wind development lease auction in January for 742,000 acres of open water 12 miles off the shore of Martha's Vineyard.

«It is appropriate and necessary to grant the AWC Companies» requested incentives,» AWC argued in its most recent FERC filing, because doing otherwise would «frustrate the extraordinary efforts of the Mid-Atlantic States, the Department of Interior (DOI) and the Department of Energy (DOE) to expedite large - scale offshore wind development.»

Under Murphy's predecessor, BPU's delay in formulating the ORECs mechanism paralysed offshore wind development in New Jersey and forfeited its leadership in a sector showing enormous economic growth potential along the US east coast.

Here's some perspective: two years ago Ontario was in a strong position to lead the world on freshwater offshore wind development, attract a major turbine manufacturer, establish a compelling local supply chain, and create many thousands of jobs.

Rasmus Stute, Head of the Offshore Service Vessels Department for world - renowned German industry consultant Germanischer Lloyd (GL), said European offshore wind development experience at depths to 50 meters shows that such Wind IMRs should have unique capacities.

The Maryland Public Service Commission greenlit two projects that put the state at the forefront of U.S. offshore wind development.

While we're a long way behind countries like the UK, there seems to be a growing momentum behind US offshore wind development — suggesting we might finally get serious about the incredible potential for this increasingly competitive technology.

It would provide an important lifeline to further offshore wind development, and could have huge implications on the nascent American wind industry.

In a first of its kind collaboration, a coalition of leading environmental organizations and offshore wind developers has agreed to a series of voluntary measures that will protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales, while helping to expedite responsible offshore wind development, in...

Second, Revolution Wind will advance offshore wind development in Massachusetts by providing an avenue to launch the new industry with an initial smaller - scale project, and phase in larger projects in close succession.

The state can be «the cradle of an entirely new domestic supply chain that could revitalize East Coast port cities, supporting offshore wind development and potentially thousands of jobs,» said AWEA Advocacy and Federal Legislative Affairs Manager Nancy Sopko.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the federal regulator that oversees offshore wind development, announced...

Gov. Phil Murphy has asked the Interior Secretary to extend a comment period on offshore wind development in the New York Bight by 180 days.

Poland's government is in the process of pushing an amendment to the country's Renewable Energies Act through parliament to allow for offshore wind auctions, while utilities with offshore wind developments are gearing up to prepare for a possible tender next year.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) is making up to $ 5 million available to support meteorological and oceanographic (metocean) data collection off the New York coast in areas with the potential for future offshore wind development.

Last Friday, the Department of the Interior brought the hammer down in favor of offshore wind development in North Carolina, where the fossil - friendly industrialist brothers are used to wielding an outsized influence on energy policy.

Hinton, who worked for Gov. Cuomo when he was the federal housing secretary, plans to focus on affordable housing, low - income communities and offshore wind development.

Lawmakers in New Jersey are counting down the days until Gov. Chris Christie (R) leaves office early next year, when they plan to restore their own credits for offshore wind developments (Energywire, June 9).

The city joined a lawsuit last year against an offshore wind development along the New York coast, saying the project was sited in prime scalloping waters.

Europe has been in the offshore wind development business for years.

Aside from Block Island and a second, slightly larger Deepwater Wind project now in the works, offshore wind development in the U.S. is not expected to benefit from federal subsidies.

The team used those data to estimate winds at 80 m high, and they concluded the model worked well: 80 - m wind estimates were good enough to be used by the industry to accurately assess areas for offshore wind development.

To accelerate the development of technologies used for offshore wind, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has laid out a strategy for offshore wind development.

It will come with «commitments for offshore wind development and renewable energy goals like those already in place in some states.»

At a time where we need to double down on actions to mitigate climate change, we should be looking towards the future set by the State's ambitious renewable energy goals and responsible offshore wind development, not new fossil fuel exploration.»

In contrast to the Pacific Coast's steep drop - off, the U.S. East Coast enjoys a wide, shallow expanse of continental shelf that is especially favorable for offshore wind development.