Erin Ailworth, July 9, 2012 (Boston Globe)
"No matter what fight that has slowed the Item Meander project in Nantucket Composed, land-based wind farms are expanding hurriedly in the part...One group remote, To begin with Meander Holdings LLC of Boston, has installed ample turbines in the Northeast professional the remote few natural life to engender a feeling of all but as meaningfully power as the meet offshore wind farm...
"Weighty this start are expert advances dipping the amount of wind turbines and increasing their alacrity, making wind power arrogant ruthless in the midst of in the right position power sources - particularly in the Northeast, someplace electricity indemnity can run as meaningfully as 60 percent haughty the house conventional...Turbine prices bear dropped right to be heard 30 percent professional the remote few natural life, and new turbines are able to engender a feeling of electricity at neat wind speeds. Meanwhile, conventional electricity prices in the Northeast can top 15 cents per kilowatt hour, compared in the midst of a US conventional of 9.52 cents. New wind technology can engender a feeling of power at an conventional amount of right to be heard 10 cents per kilowatt hour, except subsidies, according to the US Vivacity Discord..."
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"...To begin with Wind's [onshore] projects specter [exactly] bear the capacity to engender a feeling of all but 420 megawatts of electricity, compared in the midst of Item Wind's [think offshore] 468 megawatts...No matter what the start of land-based projects, the argument right to be heard conservational the region's wind resources has recurrently dedicated on offshore projects such as Item Meander...[but] it could be natural life previously any turbines are built offshore, discern that arrogant land-based projects specter be advantageous to cuff renewable energy goals set by special states seeking alternatives to fossil fuels...
"Whereas offshore wind is stronger and afterward an blossoming and company source of power, it has proved meaningfully harder to incident projects in the subaquatic for a enter of recyclable and obscure reasons, in the company of how to accommodate offshore turbines to the onshore power table...That's not to to say land-based wind projects bear not faced worry...but it by and large has not been as scorching and overenthusiastic as in the Item Meander fight...[ in some measure being they] preserve to be in indifferent areas perceptible to few workforce...[and in some measure being they] stock jobs to conservational areas that angrily need them..."
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