Usa Offshore Wind

Block Island's5-turbine, 6-MW Siemens offshore wind turbines Transmission lines,
. . . will feed to the island, and then to the mainland grid.

Like the shipyards and ports that helped make the East Coast an economic hub,
. . . an offshore wind industry based on maritime tradition,
. . . hopes to cash in on the promise of clean energy.

The Department of the Interior’s self-dubbed “Smart from the Start” initiative
. . . aims to streamline the siting and permitting process
. . . by creating wind energy areas that would help serve
. . . some of the major population centers of the East Coast.

From the federal government’s point of view,
. . . the potential is too great to ignore.
The initiative hopes to calm the bureaucratic waters
. . . in pursuit of an end goal of
. . . 10 GW of offshore wind by 2020 and
. . . 54 GW by 2030.

Source: renewableenergyworld