61 results found for 'Kitty hawk'

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  • US Starts Permitting Process for 2.6+ GW Offshore Wind Farm in Virginia

    2 July 2021
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is starting another in a series of environmental reviews the authority commenced over the past few months. This time, it is for a wind farm in federal waters off Virginia which could add more than 2.6 GW of offshore wind capacity to the US. BOEM will issue […]

  • North Carolina Urged to Harness Offshore Wind Potential

    11 August 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment

    Fifty elected officials, small businesses, community groups, and environmental organizations from North Carolina sent a letter to Governor Roy Cooper calling on him to embrace offshore wind as a key part of the state’s energy plan.

  • BOEM: NC Offshore Wind Closer to Reality

    18 September 2015
    Environment

    The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed an environmental review, allowing it to move forward with its process for considering a renewable energy lease sale offshore North Carolina. BOEM’s revised environmental assessment (EA), which was conducted according to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements, found there would be no significant environmental or socioeconomic impacts from […]

  • Westwood: US Offshore Wind Gaining Momentum Despite Trump’s Pro-Oil & Gas Stance

    17 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    Despite President Donald Trump’s pro-oil and gas stance and his decision to leave the Paris Climate Accord, there are some positive signs that US offshore wind is gaining momentum, Westwood Global Energy Group writes.

  • BOEM and NOAA Join Forces on US Offshore Wind

    20 January 2022
    Authorities

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have signed an interagency memorandum in support of the country’s offshore wind energy ambitions. The new agreement underscores the two agencies’ commitment to responsibly deploy 30 GW of wind energy production capacity in federal waters by 2030 while protecting […]

  • Avangrid Takes Iberdrola’s Offshore Wind Expertise and Wallet to US

    17 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    With the United States only starting to chart its wind turbine arrays installed at sea, Iberdrola has been developing these projects across Europe for a while, and has now open doors to the American offshore wind sector through its US renewable energy division Avangrid Renewables, which won the rights to build an offshore wind farm off Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on 16 March.

  • Avangrid to Operate Vineyard Wind 1

    4 August 2022
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Avangrid has finalized an agreement to assume responsibility as the operations and management services provider for Vineyard Wind 1, the first commercial-scale offshore wind project in the United States. The 800 MW Vineyard Wind 1, a 50-50 joint venture between Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) funds CI II and CI III, is currently under […]

  • US Greenlights Wind Auction Offshore the Carolinas

    25 March 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed its environmental review and will hold a wind energy auction for two lease areas offshore North Carolina and South Carolina on 11 May. The lease areas include 110,091 acres in the Carolina Long Bay. If developed, they could result in at least 1.3 GW of offshore […]

  • US offshore wind opportunities in 2018

    12 April 2018

    By: Jason Deign, for New Energy Update The US offshore wind sector ended 2017 on a slightly ironic note. Plans for Cape Wind, which was supposed to have been the country’s first offshore wind farm, were finally shuttered after a long period of uncertainty.[1] But prospects for the rest of the market looked better than […]