Offshore Wind Farm Receives Final Permits

US Based Cape Wind has just received permission from the Environmental Protection Agency. This development permits the company to move ahead in its endeavors to provide employment besides optimizing power generation from its offshore wind farm that has an installed capacity of around 468 MW.

A day before this approval, the company had received the long pending Section 10 Permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 2010, the US Interior Secretary had approved purchase of power to be transmitted to the national grid from the country’s pioneering effort in setting up offshore wind farm. The company had earlier received approval from the federal government and the Massachusetts judiciary.

The company will generate about a 1000 jobs. The Massachusetts governor had in 2010, declared that the company will have its offices at the newly inaugurated Marine Commerce Terminal at New Bedford. Mass Tank based out of Bridgewater, is collaborating with in the German company EEW, in an added endeavor to provide more jobs to set up a manufacturing unit in Massachusetts. This unit will supply monopile foundations and transition pieces to Cape Wind.

Source: http://www.capewind.org