{"id":545983,"date":"2010-04-28T12:35:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T16:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=7856"},"modified":"2010-04-28T12:35:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T16:35:39","slug":"salazar-approves-landmark-offshore-wind-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/545983","title":{"rendered":"Salazar Approves Landmark Offshore Wind Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/policy.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Policy\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/wind.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Wind\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/istock-offshore-wind-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7321\" title=\"istock offshore wind\" src=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/istock-offshore-wind-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a>Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has awarded Boston-based developer Cape Wind a crucial federal permit supporting the development of a landmark, 420 megawatts offshore wind farm off Cape Cod.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"more-7856\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The federal permit in effect closes a nine-year\u00a0 approval process for Cape Wind, which first announced the project in 2001 but quickly faced intense opposition from a diverse coalition comprised of local residents, Native American tribes and environmental groups, which did not oppose offshore wind development but the location of the Cape Wind project.<\/p>\n<p>From the start Cape Wind had a staunch ally in Secretary Salazar, who early in his term heading the Interior Department, vowed to develop the country&#8217;s largely untapped offshore potential.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Europe and in particular Denmark and the UK are years ahead of the U.S. in terms of developing and operating utility-scale offshore wind power plants. Earlier this year, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced an ambitious \u00a375 billion ($119 billion) project to build thousands of offshore wind turbines as part of the country&#8217;s Round 3 of bids for leasing of portions of the British sea bed.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Wind says it can generate power by 2012 and aims to eventually  supply three-quarters of the power on Cape Cod, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.necn.com\/04\/28\/10\/Interior-secretary-approves-offshore-win\/landing_newengland.html?blockID=224895&amp;feedID=4206\" >reports New England Cable News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; More to follow<\/p>\n<p>Image: iStockphoto<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/WuunPC0EJvU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has awarded Boston-based developer Cape Wind a crucial federal permit supporting the development of a landmark, 420 megawatts offshore wind farm off Cape Cod. The federal permit in effect closes a nine-year\u00a0 approval process for Cape Wind, which first announced the project in 2001 but quickly faced intense opposition from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}