Cape Wind Offshore Wind Energy Project -OffshoreWind.net

April 29 2011- Cape Wind Project Wins Construction Approval

May 7 2010- Cape Wind and National Grid have reached a 15-year PPA for 50% of Cape Wind's power, 234 MW.
Under terms of the agreement, National Grid would begin purchasing power from Cape Wind in 2013 at 20.7 cents/KWh and the
price would increase 3.5% per year over 15 years. National Grid estimates that the agreement would add $1.59 per month to its
average customers electrcity bill. The project expects to reach sales agreements for the remaining output in the coming weeks and months.
Click here for the National Grid Press Release
Click here for PPA details (provided by Cape Wind)
Click here for National Grid PUC PPA filing

Cape Wind PPA

April 28 2010- Cape Wind is approved by Ken Salazar.

Apirl 2010- Ken Salazar's decision to approve or disapprove the Cape Wind project is due out before the end of this month.

Jan 4 2010- The National Park Service agreed with the Wampanoag tribes of Aquinnah and Mashpee that Nantucket Sound is eligible to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places finding that the Cape Wind project would disturb the tribes spiritual sun greetings and submerged ancestral burying grounds. US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will meet with both parties next week to come up with a "common-sense agreement" by March 1 2010 on ways to minimize the project's impact on the Sound's cultural and historic value. Barring an agreement, the Interior Secretary said, "I will be prepared to take the steps necessary to bring the permit process to conclusion." Click here for the National Park Service's decision and Ken Salazar's response

Dec 2 2009- Cape Wind will begin negotiations with utility National Grid in hopes to sign a power purchase agreement

May 21 2009- Cape Wind completes its State and Local permitting process with a vote by the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board
to grant Cape Wind a ‘Certificate of Environmental Impact and Public Interest' that rolls up all State and Local permits and approvals into one ‘super permit '

Jan 16 2009- The Cape Wind Final EIS finds the project to have minimal impacts. Click here for a Summary

Jan 14 2008- Cape Wind Draft EIS finds project to have minimal impacts.
View Summary Here

Cape Wind Associates

Clean Power Now- - Non-profit advocacy organization promoting wind energy, specifically supporting the Cape Wind project

MMS-Main project permitting entity

Cape Wind Permitting Highlights- Jan 2009

Cape Wind Draft Environmental Impact Statement (MMS)-Jan 14 2008 (View Summary Here )

Cape Wind Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Army Corps.)

Cape Wind Live Data Feed from Scientific Monitoring Station

National Grid PUC PPA filing

Further Reading:

Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound- Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb. Illustrated. 326 pp. Public Affairs

Cape Wind Interviews- WGBH

Map
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(Source: Cape Wind Public Plan Filing)

Simulated view from Cotuit (5.6 miles from project):

(Source: Cape Wind)

Simulated view from Nantucket (13.8 miles from project):

(Source: Cape Wind)

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