Which American Company is going to build the first large scale wind farm in the US?
www.vineyardwind.com
It looks like a consortium of Swedish and US companies. Any bets that this will be Solyndra-2 (on steroids)?
A wind farm off Martha's Vineyard will produce enough power for 400,000 homes. It's the first of a dozen such projects in the works that are set to shift the clean energy landscape dramatically.
www.npr.org
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I'm wondering if the project will be able to get all of the permits and approvals thru before the next admin takes office?
Wow! 30 gigawatts is a lot of power. I thought Oklahoma had a lot, last time I drove through there. Just a drop in the bucket compared to 30 GW.
Where are you getting this 30 gigawatt horseshit?
From the article. It is a goal announced by Biden in March. This is the first approval toward that goal.
In March, the Biden administration announced a national goal of installing 30 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity by 2030.
The U.S. Interior Department approved the country's first large-scale offshore wind project Tuesday, a final hurdle that reverses course from the Trump administration and sets the stage for a major shift in the energy landscape.
A wind farm off Martha's Vineyard will produce enough power for 400,000 homes. It's the first of a dozen such projects in the works that are set to shift the clean energy landscape dramatically.
www.npr.org
It's not built yet, turd, and it never will be. The taxpayers will get fed up after they suffer through a couple of power outages.
This is in the east. About the only time they have power outage is in bad storms. As for the Texas scenario. Everybody but Texas is on the National grid. Major portions of normal states never go dark, just for state incompetence at the hands of state government and loosely regulate (or unregulated) private enterprise. Everybody else buys their shortfalls from adjacent states and suppliers, such as TVA. California used to be stupid about power, but got over it. Texas is about the only power dumbasses left.
They aren't dumb....they will fix the one issue that happened one time.......California is stupid, they can't supply power in the middle of the summer, and have rolling black outs every single year. If the cold, northern states adopt California energy policies, they will have rolling blackouts in the middle of winter...and people will die...
They had a host of problems, one of them not being on the national grid and another, having no control over their private vendors. Billing for the ones that had power were pretty interesting also. All I know about the power situation in California was the Enron thing after deregulation. Would not surprise me if they still had problems out there. It is an unusual state with unusual people and politics. Not likely many states want to follow California's energy policies or Texas.
I have lived in Tennessee and Kentucky. TVA is excellent in both states, low priced, efficient and
always turns a profit back to Uncle Sam, broad based production from Hydro-electric, Nuclear, fossil fuel and natural gas fired plants and I believe some wind. They supply across several states, control major flooding, navigation for commerce and development of parks and recreational areas. I'm satisfied.