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From: "Leyden, Kathleen" <[email protected]>To: "Bergeron, Mark" <[email protected]>
"Woodcock, Patrick C" <[email protected]>"Mendelson, Meredith" <[email protected]>"deMaynadier, Phillip" <[email protected]>
Date: 4/4/2016 9:06:45 AMSubject: FW: Aqua Ventus project; recent news article
FYI From: Burrowes, ToddSent: Monday, April 04, 2016 12:50 PMTo: Leyden, Kathleen; Nixon, Matthew ESubject: Aqua Ventus project; recent news article Fyi. http://lincolncountynewsonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=75&ArticleID=67812
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From: "Burrowes, Todd" <[email protected]>To: "Leyden, Kathleen" <[email protected]>
"Nixon, Matthew E" <[email protected]>Date: 4/4/2016 8:49:50 AM
Subject: Aqua Ventus project; recent news article
Fyi. http://lincolncountynewsonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=75&ArticleID=67812
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From: "Burrowes, Todd" <[email protected]>To: "Nixon, Matthew E" <[email protected]>
"Leyden, Kathleen" <[email protected]>Date: 4/27/2016 6:08:44 AM
Subject: story re: aqua ventus project
http://bangordailynews.com/2016/04/27/business/cianbro-cmp-squabble-over-fees-to-connect-solar-offshore-wind/
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From: "Burrowes, Todd" <[email protected]>To: "Nixon, Matthew E" <[email protected]>
"Leyden, Kathleen" <[email protected]>Date: 5/27/2016 8:50:14 AM
Subject: AquaVentus
http://bangordailynews.com/2016/05/27/news/state/umaine-offshore-wind-project-elevated-in-bid-for-40m-grant/
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From: "The Maine Ocean & Wind Industry Initiative" <[email protected]>To: "Burrowes, Todd" <[email protected]>
Date: 6/8/2016 8:08:18 AMSubject: Maine Breeze May 2016
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Plan For Maines Largest Solar EnergyFarm Moves Ahead as SanfordApproves Lease'Portland Press Herald' May 4
The Sanford City Council onTuesday unanimouslyauthorized City ManagerSteven Buck to sign a leaseallowing Ranger Solar to use226 acres of city-owned airportland to build a 50-megawatt
photovoltaic array. The utility-scale commercial projectwould generate power to be sold through the region'selectricity grid.
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from Maine to Plymouth'The Enterprise' May 27, 2016
It's a modern variation on the classic elementary schoolscience project: making electricity from potatoes. In thiscase you take the potato fields of Maine, plant a fewdozen wind turbines, and drop a cable down thePenobscot River into the Gulf of Maine, then underwater220 miles to Plymouth.
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From: "Val Stori" <[email protected]>To: "Burrowes, Todd" <[email protected]>
Date: 6/23/2016 7:49:04 AMSubject: Offshore Wind Accelerator Project Newsletter - June 2016
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The Offshore Wind AcceleratorProject Newsletter
June 2016
From Oil to Offshore Wind
By Lew Milford, President, Clean Energy Group
If U.S. oil companies stop drilling for more oil, asclimate activists want, what would they do to keep theirshareholders happy and solvent? Maybe they couldrepower the American electric industry with offshorewind.
Recently, an emerging group of Exxon and Chevronshareholders almost forced the companies at theirannual meeting to conduct climate “stress tests.” Theclose vote, if it had gone the other way, would havecompelled the oil giants to disclose their financial risksin a world growing less favorable to endless oilproduction.
That would have been a good thing. But it's not theonly way to change the companies’ behavior onclimate. Keep reading...
IN THIS ISSUE
Opening Letter News of Note
State Updates
Federal Updates
International International
Reports of Interest
Upcoming Events Upcoming Events
This newsletter is apublication of the Offshore Wind AcceleratorProject (OWAP), withsupport from theNortheast WindResource Center (NWRC). The NWRC is the regionalepicenter for salient,unbiased information onland-based and offshorewind energy in theNortheastern UnitedStates. Additional
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News of Note NYSERDA Sailing Forward On OffshoreWindThe New York State Energy Research andDevelopment Authority (NYSERDA) announcementthat it will participate in the Bureau of Ocean EnergyManagement’s (BOEM) auction of the New York WindEnergy Area is an exciting and potentially significantopportunity for offshore wind development. NYSERDA’sannouncement came shortly after BOEM announcedthat it would hold a competitive auction for over81,000 acres offshore Long Island and several monthsafter Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed hisadministration’s commitment to developing an OffshoreWind Master Plan. Keep reading...
State UpdatesMassachusettsThe house has passed a bill (H.4377 An Act toPromote Energy Diversity) that would require the state’sutilities to solicit long-term contracts to purchase 1200MW of offshore wind power. Read more
MaineFrench naval defense and energy group DCNS will jointhe University of Maine's offshore wind consortium for theAqua Ventus I pilot project, a 12 MW floating offshorewind farm near Maine’s shores. DCNS is a navalarchitect that has teamed up with Alstom (now GE) todesign innovative floating turbine structures. Readmore
North Carolina/ South CarolinaBOEM announced that it will move forward withleasing North Carolina’s Kitty Hawk Wind Energy Area,but will combine the two proposed Wilmington areasinto the South Carolina leasing area due to publiccomments and concerns over wake effect, visualimpacts, and expansion of the North Atlantic RightWhale critical habitat. Read more
New YorkThe New York State Energy Research and DevelopmentAuthority plans to bid for a BOEM offshore wind leaselater this year off the coast of Long Island. If successful,NYSERDA would undertake initial site assessmentstudies and prepare an offtake agreement beforeholding an auction for the development rights of thewind lease area. Read more OhioIn early May, the US Department of Energy (DOE)awarded the Lake Erie Development Corporation(LEEDCo) another $3.7 million to continueengineering work on its proposed Icebreaker project inLake Erie. Later that month, the DOE announced thatthe Icebreaker project was eligible for up to $40 millionin additional funding. Icebreaker will now be one ofthree leading projects eligible for additional fundingover three years for the construction phase of thedemonstration program.
Rhode IslandBlue Water USA is providing hub logistics services toGeneral Electric in the Port of Providence for the30MW Block Island offshore wind project. Read more
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Federal Updates Senators Edward Markey (D-MA) and SheldonWhitehouse (D-RI) introduced new legislation—theOffshore Wind Incentives for New Development (WIND)Act—to extend the 30% ITC to 2025 for offshore winddevelopment. Read more
BOEM has announced a proposed sale notice for anoffshore wind lease area off of New York. 81,000 acreshave been identified for a single lease auction to occurby the end of the year. Read more
BOEM and the State of California have announced theestablishment of an Intergovernmental RenewableEnergy Task Force to explore offshore windopportunities. The task force was established inresponse to Governor Jerry Brown’s request. Readmore
BOEM held a Hawaii task force meeting to reviewlease requests, provide an overview of environmentalanalysis, and review the call for information andnominations - read more. BOEM announced a Call forInformation and Nominations for two offshore windlease areas off the coast of Oahu this week. ReadBOEM's press release here . The University of Maine’s Aqua Ventus I consortium iseligible for up to $40m in additional grant funding fromthe US Department of Energy to continue offshore windproject development. The Atlantic City Wind Farmproposed by Fishermen’s Energy may also be eligiblefor grant funding if it is able to secure a power purchaseagreement by the end of 2016. Read more
National Renewable Energy Lab researchers estimateconstruction of floating offshore wind farms off Californiawould inject up to $40 billion into the state economy.BOEM commissioned the study to help with OSWplanning. Read more
International Updates DenmarkDONG Energy, a Danish oil and gas developer, wentpublic this month and drove Europe’s biggest IPO of2016. Read more JapanJapan has amended its existing Port and Harbour Lawto open near-shore waters for offshore winddevelopment. Read more
Reports of Interest The Northeast Regional Planning Body has released itsdraft Northeast Regional Ocean Plan for public reviewand comment. Several years of public engagement,scientific study and data analysis, and collaborationhas led to this draft; the public comment deadline isJuly 25. Read more
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