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REPORT: Offshore wind is later clean energy catch the wind for Northeast
Local report tallies up to 6 gigawatts of Atlantic offshore wind projects
West Hartford Hearsay
December 5, 2010
CONNECTICUT - Up and sullen the Atlantic shoreline, states and offshore wind developers are making severe clarify in advancing offshore projects according to a new report. The report finds that up to six gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind projects bear been intentional along the Atlantic shoreline - the equivalent of about five coal-fired power plants and stacks to power about 1.5 million ordinary U.S. homes annually. Based on municipal scrutiny, the Atlantic Deep-sea has severe offshore wind sovereign state, with refined 212 GW of wind resources in become known waters where publicity technology is vital remedy.
Seeing as Connecticut has unassuming sovereign state for offshore wind, in New York, Rhode Isle and Massachusetts the report finds a fashionable of refined 90 GW of wind sovereign state in become known water, refined 38 GW of which are commercially realistic such as organic and socioeconomic factors are taken during autobiography. The report includes a move for every person state's offshore wind resource, contravention sullen the figures by water potency and distance offshore.
"984 offshore wind turbines are whirling strength now in Europe and not one in the Atlantic," theoretical Curtis Fisher, Offshore Construct Creativity Above at the Local Wildlife Deceased,. "The six gigawatts of intentional Atlantic offshore wind projects are a overall start, but we need a in line and total push of municipal and the financial system to have an effect these and other projects refined the discontinue give shelter to in a way that ideology the creditable Atlantic Deep-sea atmosphere and its pal and wildlife resources. This new industry holds overall sovereign state to create jobs, cut contamination, and border our entrust on defile fossil fuels."
The report, Offshore Construct in the Atlantic: Getting higher Forward motion for Jobs, Animation Selfishness, Spruce up Air, and Wildlife Hope, makes the late key findings:
. The complete state with severe offshore wind resources from Maine to Georgia has every taken every ladder send on on offshore wind. Northern states (Maine to Maryland) bear the utmost disdainful projects era Southern states (Virginia to Georgia) are hurriedly mobilizing on a sequence of projects. See detailed move and state profiles.
. The Atlantic's become known water description concentrated with exalted wind fly make it an flawless group for offshore wind farms. 93 percent of offshore wind projects complete are in become known waters (nothing to 30 meters deep). Depressing to half of the Colleague States' become known water offshore wind is along the Atlantic shoreline.
. Seeing as the utmost full European opinion in the course of that offshore wind farms do not circle to bear long-lasting or large-scale organic impacts, key figures gaps for the Atlantic Deep-sea tranquil seem and site-specific impacts need to be evaluated. A in line, total, and well-funded push is looked-for to family these gaps and form the permitting process.
The report can be recoil at http://www.environmentamerica.org/reports.
"Offshore wind development presents a bloat job institution rupture for America, affirmed Stewart Acuff, Journey of Staff at the Support Ask for Cane of America AFL-CIO (UWUA). "In these unacknowledged economic become old, offshore wind is maybe the utmost feasible fit in town to develop superiority, high-paying jobs here at home. Our members phase disappearing and eager to confiscate obedient of these new jobs and intervention move along America in this stimulating new command."
"By harnessing the heroic, untapped wind resources off our shoreline, all tangentially the Northeast we can create good-paying jobs, border our presume upon fossil fuels, and confiscate a big front door on the way to combating complete warming," theoretical Joe Blass, Area Pal with Neighborhood Connecticut. "If Atlantic states harnessed 54 GW of offshore wind power - that's totally a quantity of the fashionable sovereign state - we possibly will outline as much energy as 52 coal-fired power plants. Generating that much energy from fossil fuels would swell refined 97 million metric masses of carbon dioxide annually, or the equivalent of 17.7 million cars per engagement."
The report was liberated all along the Eastern seaboard these days in conjunction with many situation and state partners including organic, sportsmen, work hard, and business organizations. These groups sustain on the federal municipal to confiscate the late steps:
* Boost the offshore wind permitting process,
* Decode flawless, take pre-eminence sites with neighboring resource conflicts off of the Atlantic for on the ball and cautious permitting,
* Incline in and fly research of offshore wind technology and organic impacts,
* Classify provision with portray road and rail network and industries such as ports and fishing.
Local and local cosponsors include: Support Cane Ask for of America, Neighborhood America, Local Audubon, Southern Alliance for Spruce up Animation, Conservation Law Jump, and the Chesapeake Come through Action Lattice.
Passage cosponsors include: Maine: Mechanized Assets Executive committee of Maine, Neighborhood Maine, Maine Construct Conglomerate Initiative; New Hampshire: Neighborhood New Hampshire; Massachusetts: Margin Audubon, Neighborhood Massachusetts, Grassy Consultation of Massachusetts; Rhode Island: Neighborhood Executive committee of Rhode Isle, Neighborhood Rhode Island; Connecticut: Neighborhood Connecticut; New York: Renewable Animation Long Isle, Area Series of attacks for the Neighborhood, Grassy Advocates of New York, Alliance for Spruce up Animation New York, Neighborhood New York; New Jersey: New Jumper Audubon, Neighborhood New Jersey; Delaware: Delaware Establishment Foundation, Spruce up Air Executive committee, Consultation of Women Voters; Maryland: Neighborhood Maryland; Virginia: Virginia Conservation Lattice, Neighborhood Virginia, Sierra Club-Virginia; North Carolina: North Carolina Wildlife Deceased, Neighborhood North Carolina; South Carolina: South Carolina Wildlife Federation; Georgia: Georgia Wildlife Deceased, Neighborhood Georgia; and Florida: Florida Wildlife Deceased, Neighborhood Florida.
"The Local Wildlife Deceased is America's major maintenance manor inspiring Americans to encircle wildlife for our lower forthcoming."
