USA: CRMC Opens Public Comment Period for Block Island Wind Farm

The Coastal Resources Management Council has opened a 60-day public comment period for the Deepwater Wind’s wind energy project offshore Block Island, writes the Block Island Times.

The Block Island Wind Farm (BIWF) will consist of “five 6 MW wind turbine generators (WTGs), a submarine cable interconnecting the five WTGs, and a 34.5 kilovolt (kV) submarine transmission cable from the northernmost WTG to an interconnection point on east-central Block Island where the cable will go ashore to a new substation built at the existing Block Island Power Company (BIPCO) property. In connection with the BIWF, Deepwater Wind Block Island Transmission, LLC proposes to construct the Block,“ says the permit application notice.

The public comment period started on November 15, and will be closed on January 15, after which a public hearing will be scheduled.

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Offshore WIND staff, November 21, 2012; Image: dwwind